Old Man Quotes - Page 28

• It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to contract our views afterward. Youths so laid out, with broad avenues and parks, that they may make handsome and liberal old men! Show me a youth whose mind is like some Washington city of magnificent distances, prepared for the most remotely successful and glorious life after all, when those spaces shall be built over and the idea of the founder be realized. I trust that every New England boy will begin by laying out a Keene Street through his head, eight rods wide.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Distance, Ambition, Successful

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.932, e-artnow

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• Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

  Plato

  Children, Men, Drunk

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• Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

  Perry Brass

  Men, Doors, Long

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.26, Perry Brass

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• With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Family, Running, Men

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• A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Men, Legends

  Quoted in International Herald Tribune, 17 July 1991

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• Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it.

  Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

  Men, Ridiculous, Should

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• Anytime you see me with my arms around an old man, I'm holding him for the police.

  Moms Mabley

  Men, Police, Arms

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• Writing from a teen's perspective is easy as pie. At least I've actually been a teen. I've never been a woman, or an ethnic minority, or a weary old man. If anything, writing from the perspective of a child is probably easier for me. When I was a kid everyone thought I was so clever and precocious. Now that I'm adult, everyone thinks that I'm kinda odd and childish.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Children, Clever, Kids

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• Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Fire, Gold

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• I forewarn you, this will be a rather long talk. I am an old man. I do not know how much longer I will live, and so I want to say what I have to say, while I have the strength to say it. ...Having been warned, some of you will wish to get comfortable. Pleasant dreams.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Dream, Men, Long

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• She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face and fond of dancing. She looked at the oak: he would be a wizened, but hearty, old man with a frizzled beard and warts on his fact and hands, with hair growing out of the warts. She looked at the beech under which she was standing. Ah! --she would be the best of all. She would be a gracious goddess, smooth and stately, the Lady of the Wood.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Men, Hair

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• And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

  Mitch Albom

  Men, Heaven, Secret

  "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". Book by Mitch Albom, 2003.

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• The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.

  Mitch Albom

  Wise, Children, Men

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• Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

  Alexander Pope

  Time, Men, Thinking

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• A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Men, Way, Young

  Interview with Dave Calhoun, www.timeout.com.

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• There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Birthday, Men, Littles

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• But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible!

  Anne Frank

  Revenge, Men, Doors

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.49, GENERAL PRESS

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• Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

  Eric Clapton

  Boys, Men, Skins

  Eric Clapton (2007). “Clapton: The Autobiography”, Broadway

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• I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.

  Robertson Davies

  Wise, Men, Two

  Robertson Davies (1983). “The Deptford trilogy”, Penguin Mass Market

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• My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Volunteer, Important

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• There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Music, Dance

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 13, 1595.

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• Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.

  Isaac Asimov

  Men, Thinking, Intuition

  Isaac Asimov (2010). “Pebble in the Sky”, p.108, Macmillan

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• A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.

  Wendy Mass

  Kindness, Regret, Lying

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• There is but one soul throughout the universe, all is but one existence - "Thou art in the woman, thou in the man, thou in the young man walking in the pride of youth, thou in the old man tottering on his stick - thou art All - in all, in everything, and I am thee, because I am made from thee."

  Swami Vivekananda

  God, Art, Pride

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• If you need a baby that bad, go down to the pound and get one. Not even a baby - go get an old man. There's unwanted people of all ages, pre-made and waiting for you.

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Baby, Humor

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