Old Man Quotes - Page 35

• Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. This question is one that only a very old man asks. My benefactor told me about it once when I was Young. And my blood was too vigorous for me to understand it. Now I do understand it. I will tell you what it is: does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Men, Thinking

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• 'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they are at the moment.'

  Douglas Adams

  Men, Voice, Doubt

  Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

  Sivananda

  Knowledge, Men, Needs

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• A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

  Paul Gauguin

  Men, Young, Folly

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• Tshikona is lwa-ha-masia-khali-i-tshi-vhila, "the time when people rush to the scene of the dance and leave their pots to boil over." Tshikona "makes sick people feel better and old men throw away their sticks and dance." Tshikona "brings peace to the countryside...." It is an example of the production of the maximum of available human energy in a situation that generates the highest degree of individuality in the largest possible community of individuals.

  John Blacking

  Music, Feel Better, Men

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• And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.

  Theodore Roethke

  Life, Giving Up, Breathing

  1948 The Lost Son,'Root Cellar'.

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• The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We’ve now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago, where a 77-year-old man shot himself in the head outside the Greek Parliament. That was the public face of what’s gone wrong.

  Nigel Farage

  Suicide, Men, Years

  "On the edge of social breakdown". UK Independence Party Website, May 31, 2012.

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• From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless, staring at the house. The cab pulled away and rounded the corner of Thirty-sixty Street. Kinderman quickly pulled out to follow. As he turned the corner, he noticed that the tall old man hadn't moved but was standing under the streetlight glow, in mist, like a melancholy traveler frozen in time.

  William Peter Blatty

  Men, House, Black

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• Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

  Plato

  Children, Philosophical, Men

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'd Rather Be an Old Man's Sweetheart (Than a Young Man's Fool).

  Candi Staton

  Men, Fool, Sweetheart

  Song: I'd Rather Be An Old Man's Sweetheart

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• From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay attention to the west wind. Pay attention to the boy on the raft, the lady in the tower, the old man on the train. In sum, pay attention to the world and all that dwells therein and thereby learn at last to pay attention to yourself and all that dwells therein.

  Frederick Buechner

  Drama, Boys, Men

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.26, Zondervan

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• When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

  John Calvin

  Men, Done, World

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• I'm not romantic at all. I'm a moaner. I should be on Grumpy Old Men. I'm terrible.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Men, Grumpy, Should

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Power, Men, Blood

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1190, Manonmani Publishers

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• Never try to live on the old manna, nor seek to find help in Egypt. All must come from Jesus or thou art undone forever. Old anointings will not suffice to impart unction to thy spirit; thine head must have fresh oil poured upon it from the golden horn of the sanctuary, or it will cease from its glory.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Art, Egypt

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.198, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Years, Perspective, Twelve

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• The young man must store up, the old man must use.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Use, Stores

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• Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is the business of all religious doctrines to keep their votaries in a state of intellectual infancy (how else do they keep absurdities seeming credible?), insufficient numbers of Catholics have been able to be sensible.

  A.C. Grayling

  Religious, Men, Views

  A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books

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• If you have only a little capital and are young today, there are fewer opportunities than when I was young. Back then, we had just come out of a depression. Capitalism was a bad word. There had been abuses in the 1920s. A joke going around then was the guy who said, 'I bought stock for my old age and it worked - in six months, I feel like an old man!' "It's tougher for you, but that doesn't mean you won't do well - it just may take more time. But what the heck, you may live longer."

  Charlie Munger

  Mean, Opportunity, Men

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• I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.

  Michael Wilbon

  Men, Sound, Want

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• I have drawn things since I was 6. All that I made before the age of 65 is not worth counting. At 73 I began to understand the true construction of animals, plants, trees, birds, fishes, and insects. At 90 I will enter into the secret of things. At 110, everything - every dot, every dash - will live. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age, I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign myself 'The Old Man Mad About Drawing.'

  Hokusai

  Writing, Animal, Men

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• The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

  Mark Twain

  Business, Men, Double Standard

  Following the Equator ch. 13, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of death to creep up on us unexpectedly. We have to make the fear familiar, and one way is to write about it. I don't think writing and thinking about death is characteristic only of old men. I think that if people began thinking about death sooner, they'd make fewer foolish mistakes.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Mistake, Struggle, Writing

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• There's so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this matter of breaking bricks and boards wth the edge of your hand. Now I ask you, did you ever see a brick or a board pick a fight with anybody?

  Bruce Lee

  Fighting, Men, Hands

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• Everybody struggles with get tiring as a musician having to play the same songs over and over again on one level or another. That is why you're cast to write the best songs you can. It keeps it going for you. My old man used to tell me be careful what you write you might have to play it for the rest of your life. That is always a challenge and the best way to remedy it is to write.

  Crosby Loggins

  Song, Struggle, Writing

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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