Old Man Quotes - Page 20

• An old young man, will be a young old man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Men, Age

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.12, Nayika Publishing

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• Wow, Johnny. I send you out for reinforcements and you come back with an old man, a nerd and this little hobbit guy. Great job.

  Pittacus Lore

  Jobs, Men, Guy

  Pittacus Lore (2013). “The Fall of Five: Lorien Legacies”, p.97, Penguin UK

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• But you're dead," said Harry. "Oh yes," said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. "Then...I'm dead too?" "Ah," said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. "That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.” They looked at each other, the old man still beaming. "Not?" repeated Harry. "Not," said Dumbledore. "But…" Harry raised his hand instinctively toward the lightning scar. It did not seem to be there. "But I should have died—I didn't defend myself! I meant to let him kill me!" "And that," said Dumbledore, "will, I think, have made all the difference.

  J. K. Rowling

  Boys, Men, Thinking

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• Could you help me catch the moon?” “I might be able to give you some advice,” the old man said reluctantly. “But first you should think this over, boy. When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you’ll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Love You, Boys, Moon

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two”, p.550, Penguin

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• January. It was all things. And it was one thing, like a solid door. Its cold sealed the city in a gray capsule. January was moments, and January was a year. January rained the moments down, and froze them in her memory: [...]Every human action seemed to yield a magic. January was a two-faced month, jangling like jester's bells, crackling like snow crust, pure as any beginning, grim as an old man, mysteriously familiar yet unknown, like a word one can almost but not quite define.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Memories, Men, Two

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• You love the accidental. A smile from a pretty girl in an interesting situation, a stolen glance, that is what you are hunting for, that is a motif for your aimless fantasy. You who always pride yourself on being an observateur must, in return, put up with becoming an object of observation. Ah, you are a strange fellow, one moment a child, the next an old man; one moment you are thinking most earnestly about the most important scholarly problems, how you will devote your life to them, and the next you are a lovesick fool. But you are a long way from marriage.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Girl, Children, Pride

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• Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such a look. Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Jesus, Pain, Eye

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.217, Hachette UK

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• My big fish must be somewhere.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Big Fish, Bigs, Fishes

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.7213, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't miss out on the love of a good women,son. No matter what that old man of yours tells you,love is real.I'd have never had the success in my life without the women right there.She's been my backbone.She's been my reason for everything I've ever done.One day your drive to make a name for yourself will begin to drift away. It won't be that important anymore.But when you're doing it for someone else, someone you would move heaven and earth for then you never lose the desire to succeed.I can't imagine this world without her in it.I don't ever want to.

  Abbi Glines

  Real, Moving, Son

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• Katsa now sat calmly on the stomach of her vanquished foe. "He was handsome," said said. Po moaned. "Was he beat-to-a-pulp handsome, or perhaps just push-down-a-flight-of-stairs handsome?" "I would not push a seventy six year old man down a flight of stairs," said Katsa indignantly.

  Kristin Cashore

  Men, Years, Six Year Olds

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• Did you get Mom a birthday present?" Helen asked. "Yes," Gansey replied. "Myself." "The gift that keeps on giving." "I don't think that minor children are required to get gifts for their parents. I'm a dependent. That's the definition of dependent, is it not?" "You, a dependent!" his sister said, and laughed. "You haven't been a dependent since you were four. You went straight from kindergarten to old man with a studio apartment.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mom, Children, Men

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• The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Eye, Men, Sun

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.2, Hamilton Books

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• I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

  Fred Astaire

  Inspiration, Men, Dancing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

  Mark Twain

  Laughter, Cutting, Men

  Mark Twain (1876). “Mississippi Writings”, p.181, Library of America

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• ...there began to come to her a first dim realization of God's humility. Rejected by the proud in His own right by what humble means He chose to succor them; through the spirit of a child, a poor gypsy or an old man, by a song perhaps, or even it might be by the fall of a leaf or the scent of a flower. For His infinite and humble patience nothing was too small to advance His purpose of salvation and eternity was not too long for its accomplishment.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Song, Children, Flower

  Elizabeth Goudge (1958). “The White Witch”

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• An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade.

  Frank Miller

  Girl, Men, Littles

  "Fictional character: John Hartigan". "Sin City", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, 'You're so sweet I could gobble you all up!', but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, settled for, 'It's very kind of you to say so.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Sweet, Clever

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• I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.

  Meg Cabot

  Rip, Men, Shoes

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• What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Men, People

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.192, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Blood, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]

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• Mum said earlier what a lovely dress you’re wearing.” Beryl’s eyebrows wriggled like two tiny tapeworms. “This?” she said. “But I’ve had this for years.” It was a beige dress that would have looked better on an eighty year-old. Any eighty-year-old, man or woman. “I think you’ve really grown into it,” Valkyrie said. “I always thought it was a little shapeless.” Valkyrie resisted the urge to say that was what she meant.

  Derek Landy

  Men, Thinking, Years

  Derek Landy (2011). “Death Bringer (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 6)”, p.37, HarperCollins UK

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• The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray hair and a beard. He was tall and thin and looked vaguely familiar to Harry.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Hair, Long

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• Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. And therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. It allows us to be generous, which is another way of saying exactly the same thing.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.246, Macmillan

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• An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Farewell, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.114, Psychology Press

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• They sped by a pack of sea lions lounging on the docks, and she swore she saw an old homeless guy sitting among them. From across the water the old man pointed a bony finger at Percy and mouthed something like 'Don't even think about it.' "Did you see that?" Hazel asked. Percy's face was red in the sunset. "Yeah. I've been here before. I...I don't know. I think I was looking for my girlfriend." "Annabeth," Frank said. "You mean, on your way to Camp Jupiter?" Percy frowned. "No. Before that.

  Rick Riordan

  Girlfriend, Sunset, Mean

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