Old Man Quotes - Page 33

• Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

  George Herbert

  Men, Young, Young Man

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.245

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• I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live into, and a universe you sincerely hope you don't live in already.

  Ken MacLeod

  War, Character, Men

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• Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet Yet is not a prophet, for he's much too busy, Repeats while he binds his tomatoes: No other end of the world will there be, No other end of the world will there be.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Men, White, Would Be

  Czeslaw Milosz, “A Song On The End Of The World”

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• An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

  Seneca the Younger

  School, Men, Ridiculous

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• My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

  S. E. Hinton

  Mother, Father, Men

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• I taught myself to name my name,
  To bark back, loosen love and crying;
  To ease my woman so she came,
  To ease an old man who was dying.

  W. D. Snodgrass

  Education, Men, Names

  W. D. Snodgrass, “April Inventory”

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• If you want a peaceful place to dwell Cold Mountain is guaranteed forever A light wind blows softly in the pines The sound is good when you are close One old man sits beneath the trees Reading Lao Tzu and Huang Ti, mumbling I could not find the world if I searched ten years I've forgotten the road by which I came

  Hanshan

  Reading, Blow, Men

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• Cold Mountain cold Ice freezes rock Mountains are green Snow is white Sun shines bright Every thing melt Every thing warm Warms old man

  Hanshan

  Men, Shine Bright, Rocks

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• If we apply the term revolution to what happened in North America between 1776 and 1829, it has a special meaning. Normally, the word describes the process by which man transforms himself from one kind of man, living in one kind of society, with one way of looking at the world, into another kind of man, another society, another conception of life.... The American case is different: it is not a question of the Old Man transforming himself into the New, but of the New Man becoming alive to the fact that he is new, that he has been transformed already without his having realized it.

  W. H. Auden

  Men, America, Special

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• Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Men, Years, Age

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• Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie.

  Ezra Pound

  Fear, Lying, Believe

  'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley' (1920) 'E. P. Ode pour l'èlection de son sèpulcre' pt. 4

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• I may appear to be an eccentric old man... But this is a free choice.

  Jose Mujica

  Men, Choices, May

  "Jose Mujica: The world's 'poorest' president" by Vladimir Hernandez, www.bbc.com. November 15, 2012.

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• In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving, Men, Years

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• There is something in the ardour and ingenousness of youth, which is particularly pleasing to the contemplation of an old man, if his feelings have not been entirely corroded by the world.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Men, Feelings, World

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.630, Delphi Classics

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• On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, Years, Water

  Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Kerrigan (1968). “A Personal Anthology”, p.21, Grove Press

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• The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.

  Stevie Smith

  Men, Sea, Trying

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• It was summertime and I was in The Azores, hanging around the small village my parents are from. I was looking out on this very rural setting, on a road going up a hill. There was an old man coming down the hill with a pitchfork on his shoulder. He was wearing gum boots, work pants - and a Coca-Cola T-shirt. I saw that and thought, That's my album!

  Nelly Furtado

  Men, Summertime, Parent

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• When my old man wanted sex, my mother would show him a picture of me.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Mother, Sex

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• While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Years, Enough

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.135, Cambridge University Press

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• I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.

  Barry Goldwater

  Self Confidence, Men, Track

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1980). “With No Apologies”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• My old man said, `Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!'
  But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied,
  Lost the van and don't know where to roam.

  Marie Lloyd

  Men, Way, Lost

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• There was an Old Man with an owl, Who continued to bother and howl; He sate on a rail, and imbibed bitter ale, Which refreshed that Old Man and his owl.

  Edward Lear

  Men, Alcohol, Owl

  Edward Lear (2009). “The Book of Nonsense”, p.35, The Floating Press

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• The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.

  Marvin L. Cohen

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

  Joanna Baillie

  Men, Young, Company

  Joanna Baillie (2001). “Plays on the Passions”, p.266, Broadview Press

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• Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Age, Imagine

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