Old Man Quotes - Page 30

• Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without food only a few mouthfuls of water “you are a fine looking old man” I said to myself in the mirror “and what is more you have the correct attitude You don’t care if it ends or if it goes on And as for the women and the music there will be plenty of that in Paradise” Then I went to the Mosque of Memory to express my gratitude

  Leonard Cohen

  Gratitude, Morning, Couple

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.157, McClelland & Stewart

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• The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It's in a million little pieces. I'm afraid I can't help you. Why? There's nothing you can do. Why? It can't be fixed. Why? It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces.

  James Frey

  Men, Broken, Pieces

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.10, Anchor

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• Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Rain, Men, Weather

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• In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dark, Men, Past

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• The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.

  David Eddings

  Book, Men, Looks

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• Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Wedding

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.37, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish for folly, but leniently winks at the indiscretions of youth...For one sin God banished our first parents from Eden; for one sin all the posterity of Canaan fell under a curse which remains over them to this day; for one sin Moses was excluded form the promised land; Elisha’s servant smitten with leprosy; Ananias and Sapphira were cut off from the land of the living.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Christian, Cutting, Love Is

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• Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Difficult, Dies

  'Manfred' (2nd ed., 1819) act 3, sc. 4, l. 151

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• Abe shook his head, and now the smile was gone altogether. "That's not the reason either. Don't lie to me little girl." I felt my hackles going up. "And don't interrogate me, old man.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Lying, Men

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.653, Penguin

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• Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men. ~ Gandalf to Pippin

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Two, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.742, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.

  George Herbert

  Men, Supper

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.330

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• I used to be a good party boy. I'm old. I'm an old man. You pay the consequences. I'm just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that.

  Javier Bardem

  Couple, Party, Boys

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• In 22 years of acting, I've only done two movies where I, personally, kill people. The Coens called me the Spanish Ballerina on (the No Country For Old Men) set, because every time I had the gun, when they called cut, I'd give it back and say, 'Take this s**t out of my hands!' There were laughing, like they couldn't believe I was supposed to be the villain.

  Javier Bardem

  Country, Believe, Cutting

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• My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about.

  Vivien Leigh

  Wise, Men, Talking

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• I'm really a pussycat and this [bad-boy] image has been totally overblown for 30 years. Sure, I used to rumble a little but I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm an old man now. When you reach your 50s, you realise that if you don't mellow, you won't last.

  George C. Scott

  Boys, Men, Years

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• It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.

  Thomas Moore

  Men, Sea, Forever

  Thomas Moore (1841). “Select Poetical Works”, p.55

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• Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Young, Exception

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• Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

  Andrew Lang

  Dream, Men, Laughing

  Andrew Lang, Henry Justice Ford, Lancelot Speed (1966). “The Red Fairy Book”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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• I think it's always funny when you see kids do Shakespeare. When I was at school, I was in Hamlet. I played Claudius, who's supposed to be a 60-year-old man, and I was like 18. It's inherently ridiculous seeing 18-year-old boys with gray beards. That's always funny.

  Steve Coogan

  School, Kids, Boys

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 20, 2008.

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• To be honest, I don't see myself acting forever. I just can't imagine myself being a 70-year-old man fighting for roles. I would love to do small parts in my friends' movies or things that I'm directing myself. I do envision myself behind the camera as I get a little bit older.

  Dave Franco

  Fighting, Men, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We who have seen him now, light on his feet, smooth moving as a leopard, a young man with an old man's science, the most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen, may live to see him fat, slow, old, and bald taking a beating from a younger man. But I would like to hazard a prediction that whoever beats Joe Louis in an honest fight in the next fifteen years will have to get up the floor to do it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Moving, Fighting

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• I definitely don't consider myself a kid anymore. I feel like an old man, an old 28-year-old.

  Sergio Garcia

  Kids, Men, Years

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• Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Eye, Men, Understanding

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• After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.

  Michelangelo

  Men, Years, Four

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• It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.

  Homer

  Home, Men, Doe

  Homer (1981). “The illustrated Odyssey”

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