Old Man Quotes - Page 15

• Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

  Aristophanes

  Father, Men, Age

  Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies - Complete”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.

  Billy Joel

  Children, Men, Flags

  Song: Allentown, Album: The Nylon Curtain, 1982

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• All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.

  Stephen Spender

  Children, Memories, Eye

  "Selected Poems (Fall of a City)". Book by Stephen Spender, 1941.

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• More wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of the ocean. Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. All my days I have watched it and listened to it, and I know it well. At first it told to me only the plain little tales of calm beaches and near ports, but with the years it grew more friendly and spoke of other things; of things more strange and more distant in space and time.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Beach, Ocean, Book

  H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)”, p.953, Ageless Reads

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• I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the Soviets militarily seemed a sensible thing to do. Pride in our country, respect for our armed services, a healthy appreciation for the dangers beyond our borders, an insistence that there was no easy equivalence between East and West--in all this I had no quarrel with Reagan. And when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, I had to give the old man his due, even if I never gave him my vote.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Appreciation, Wall

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.289, Canongate Books

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• This week, a 95-year-old woman married a 98-year-old man to become the world's oldest newlyweds. They're registered at Bed, Sponge Bath and Beyond.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Men, Years, Age

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• Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

  Conrad Aiken

  Men, Umbrella

  Conrad Aiken (2015). “The Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• Health is more than the mere absence of disease, it's the presence of a superior state of well being, a pizzazz, a vitality that has to be worked for each and every day of your life. You cannot get it in a bottle or from Dr. Phil.  Its got to be gotten through diet and execise and rest and recreation and attitudes of mind working all together every day of your life and then, young men can become supermen and old men can become older.

  Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

  Attitude, Men, Dr Phil

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• One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes.

  Burleigh Grimes

  Kids, Men, Curves

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• I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!

  Paul Westerberg

  Writing, Boys, Men

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. May 19, 2008.

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• When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Growing Up, Kids, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.

  Ray Bradbury

  Lying, Men, People

  "Dandelion Wine". Book by Ray Bradbury, p. 81, 1957.

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• Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'. That means on our continent any one with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty.

  Stephen Leacock

  Fall, Mean, Men

  1942 My Remarkable Uncle,'Three Score and Ten'.

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• Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality.

  James Anthony Froude

  Struggle, Son, Reality

  James Anthony Froude (1903). “The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland”

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• When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am. Why I'm here. My moms and my brother and my old man. I can just think about the character's life and try and figure out what's gonna happen. Plus when you're in a group home you pretty much can't go anywhere, right? But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy.

  Matt de la Pena

  Mom, Brother, Book

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• If any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned…I wish more of our young men would take to themselves wives of the daughters of Zion, and not wait for us old men to take them all; go ahead upon the right principle, young gentlemen, and God bless you forever and ever and make you fruitful , that we may fill the mountains and then the earth with righteous inhabitants.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Daughter, Men, Zion

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• It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Believe, Boys, Men

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• It is better to be
  An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.

  John Heywood

  Men, Beans

  "Proverbs". Book by John Heywood, 1546.

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• I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile [in "Cars"]. That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?

  Paul Newman

  Men, Careers, Giving

  "Newman remains animated at 81". Craig Modderno, Reuters, June 12, 2006.

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• My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Men, Checks, Allowance

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.21, Zondervan

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• To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

  Maxim Gorky

  Men, Homeland, Warm

  "The Lower Depths". Play by Maxim Gorky, 1902.

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• The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Men, Erring, Ancient

  "We". Book by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1921.

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• Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.

  Josephine Baker

  Fun, Men, People

  Josephine Baker's last words before she died of a stroke, April 12, 1975.

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• It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Mind, Progress

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each other and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may do for young men with whom passion is enjoyment. But it is afflicting to peaceable minds. Tranquility is the old man's milk.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Passion, Men, Political

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