Old Man Quotes - Page 2

• Old men are children once again a dream that sways and wavers into the hard light of day.

  Aeschylus

  Dream, Children, Men

  Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.87, Penguin

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• Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Men, Thinking

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• A soldier when aged is not appreciated; the love of an old man sickens.

  Ovid

  Men, Soldier, Appreciated

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• Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.

  John Ashbery

  Men, Light, Age

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Father, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'”, p.25, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive

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• My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards.'

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Cutting, Men

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• Some people have an inner child that speaks to them. I have an inner old man who just yells random [stuff] at me all day.

  Rob Cantrell

  Children, Men, People

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• When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Depressing, Funny Inspirational

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War”

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• People think God is a man. People think God has got ears, nose, teeth and he rises daily in the morning, brushes his teeth and washes his mouth. And he is an old man and he has a beard. All these things people think. But no, God is energy. God is perfect and pure energy.

  Prem Rawat

  Morning, Men, Thinking

  Speech at Central Hall, Westminster, London, November 02, 1971.

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• I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

  Stanley Kubrick

  Men, Smell, Rejection

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• We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Birthday, Time, Men

  1870 Society and Solitude,'Old Age'.

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• To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life Lesson, Luck, Hell

  "Old Man and the Sea".

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• There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Age, World

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• When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• 'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.'

  Robert Ruark

  Fun, Memories, Night

  Robert Ruark (2016). “Old Man’s Boy Grows Up”, p.162, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Men, Age, Enthusiasm

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• I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

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• A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Talking, Age

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 3, sc. 5, l. [36]

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• The Little Boy and the Old Man Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do that too." The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants." I do that too," laughed the little old man. Said the little boy, "I often cry." The old man nodded, "So do I." But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems Grown-ups don't pay attention to me." And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand. I know what you mean," said the little old man.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mean, Men, Boys

  Shel Silverstein, “The Little Boy And The Old Man”

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• Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

  Al Lopez

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Know what you are talking about.

  Pope John Paul II

  Knowledge, Knowing Jesus, Talking

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• Know what you're talking about.

  George H. W. Bush

  Knowing Jesus, Talking, Scary

  George H.W. Bush (2013). “All the Best, George Bush: My Life in Letters and Other Writings”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Mistake, Heart, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Best of Poe”, p.83, Prestwick House Inc

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• Tranquility is the old man's milk.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Milk, Tranquility

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.155, Rowman & Littlefield

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• You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Pride, Sea, Alive

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.31, Hamilton Books

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