Old Man Quotes - Page 25

• The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

  Erich Auerbach

  Men, Individuality, Individualism

  Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said (2013). “Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature”, p.18, Princeton University Press

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• Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspiring, Men, Literature

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• Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and woman will each pass on about 20 de novo mutations to a baby they conceive. By the time the couple is 40, a woman's total has remained at 20, while a man's has jumped to 65 - and it keeps climbing from there.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Baby, Couple, Opportunity

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• I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

  Joe Jonas

  Artist, Men, Thinking

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• Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Children, Men

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• A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

  E. W. Howe

  Men, Facts, Theory

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• A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspiration, Men, Age

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.178

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• The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mother, Children, Sadness

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• What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Hurt, Real

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• The old man laid a withered, spotted hand on his shoulder. "It hurts, boy," he said softly. "Oh, yes. Choosing . . . it has always hurt. And always will. I know.

  George R. R. Martin

  Hurt, Boys, Men

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.554, Bantam

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• Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

  Neal Stephenson

  Sports, Men, Years

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.56, Spectra

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• I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

  John Updike

  Baby, Men, People

  John Updike (2012). “Couples: A Novel”, p.40, Random House

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• I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Men, Week, Whole

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.409, Ageless Reads

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• With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were their words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.

  Orson Scott Card

  Men, Names, Ideas

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set I: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.148, Tor Science Fiction

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• …It’s hard to appreciate the beauty of a world when one doubts its very validity….But I’ve long since lost all such doubts, Ono,’ he continued. ‘When I am an old man, when I look back over my life and see I have devoted it to the task of capturing the unique beauty of that world, I believe I will be well satisfied. And no man will make me believe I’ve wasted my time.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Believe, Unique, Men

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Mar 24, 2012

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• In those fifty, the Old Man made me take religion seriously. I'd never been religious, but he told us that religion is important whether or not we believed in one, the same way that historical events are important whether or not you personally lived through them.

  John Green

  Religious, Men, Historical

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.39, Penguin

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• I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.

  Josh Billings

  Character, Cat, Men

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• Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.

  Willa Cather

  Inspirational Love, Men, Thinking

  Willa Cather (2016). “My çntonia”, p.159, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Cat, Home

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• Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Giving, Advice

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 93, 1678.

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• There was an old man of Orleans, Who was given to eating of beans; Till once out of sport, he swallowed a quart, That dyspeptic old man of Orleans.

  Edward Lear

  Sports, Men, Vegetables

  Edward Lear (1992). “A Book of Learned Nonsense”, Sutton Pub Limited

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• Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man.

  Hannibal

  Men, Last Words

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• Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

  Arnold Bennett

  Funny, Book, Reading

  Arnold Bennett (1932). “The Journals of Arnold Bennett ...: 1896-1910”, London, Cassell

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• Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Prayer, Men, President

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.432, Penguin

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• The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!

  John Dryden

  Dream, Prayer, Men

  'Absalom and Achitophel' (1681) pt. 1, l. 238

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