Old Man Quotes - Page 7

• Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Immortality, Interest

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• An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.

  George Saville

  Men, Knowing, Mankind

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• Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.

  Michael Cera

  Men, Felt

  "Sardonic youth" by Andrew Male, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2007.

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• I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

  Dree Hemingway

  Teenager, Men, Sea

  "Dree Hemingway on Her Breakout Film Role in 'Starlet'". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. November 9, 2012.

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• I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.

  Keri Hilson

  Boys, Men, Years

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• In my lifetime, I may have put too much emphasis on winning, because here I am an old man and the only fun I've had is winning, and that's ridiculous.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Fun, Men

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• Sabi is the color of haikai. It is different from tranquility. For example, if an old man dresses up in armor and helmet and goes to the battlefield, or in colorful brocade kimono, attending (his lord) at a banquet, [sabi] is like this old figure.

  Matsuo Basho

  Men, Color, Example

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• Be kind to an old man.

  Walter Cronkite

  Men, Be Kind, Aging

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• This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux Indian warrior in his former life. Native American culture was always big in my house - I don't know why.

  Marc Forgione

  Native American, Kids, Warrior

  "Marc Forgione: What It's Like to Be the Next Iron Chef". Interview with Eli Rosenberg, www.esquire.com. November 22, 2010.

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• So here I am - a 75-year-old man sitting on a bar stool in a blues club, trying to figure out exactly how I got here. Any way you look at it, it's a helluva story.

  Buddy Guy

  Men, Years, Here I Am

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• The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.

  Bear Bryant

  Children, Kissing, Men

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• The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.

  George Clinton

  Men, Talking, Use

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• Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'

  Nathan Kress

  Sleep, Men, Hours

  "Get To Know iCarly's Nathan Kress". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. February 2, 2012.

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• Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.

  Robin Boyd

  Men, Australia, Facts

  Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”

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• My father always said I would do something big one day.'I've got a feeling about you, John Osbourne,' he'd tell me, after he'd had a few beers.'You're either going to do something very special, or you're going to go to prison.'
  And he was right, my old man.
  
  I was in prison before my eighteenth birthday.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Father, Beer, Men

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• O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion, And having that do choke their service up Even with the having. . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Art, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 56

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• Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Religious, Giving Up

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• I'm a very old man.
  I've had lots of problems.
  Most of them never happened..!

  Mark Twain

  Men, Problem, Happened

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• I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse here said the girl was naked from the waist up and not appropriate. You know, I've had that picture for fifty years and I never knew she was naked. If you ask me, I don't think the old men they've got here can see well enough to notice that she's bare-breasted. But, this is a Methodist home, so she's in the closet with my gallstones.

  Fannie Flagg

  Girl, Home, Thinking

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.19, Random House

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• Goddess-nurse of the young, give ear to my prayer, and grant that this woman may reject the love-embraces of youth and dote on grey-haired old men whose powers are dulled, but whose hearts still desire.

  Homer

  Prayer, Heart, Men

  Homer (2013). “The Homer Anthology”, p.1704, eBookIt.com

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• In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him pleasure and cause trouble. In the paintings that adorn churches, God is an old man with a beard, never an old woman with white hair. And all the heroes are males: from Prometheus who discovered fire to Icarus who tried to fly, on down to Jesus whom they call the Son of God and of the Holy Spirit, almost as though the woman giving birth to him were an incubator or a wetnurse.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Jesus, Hero, Son

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• Greenspan advised the American people to buy - he repeated the old mantra: 'spending is patriotic'. He also managed to convince them that if they did not have the money, that shouldn't stop them. They would 'pay later'. To a certain extent he was correct, we are all having to 'pay later'... we may even never stop paying.

  Gilad Atzmon

  Patriotic, People, May

  Gilad Atzmon (2011). “The Wandering Who?: A Study of Jewish Identity Politics”, p.27, John Hunt Publishing

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• When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Library, Dies

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• I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

  Edgard Varese

  Writing, Men, Adequate

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• Abba Moses asked Abba Sylvanus, Can a person lay a new foundation every day? The old man replied, If you work hard, you can lay a new foundation every moment. Abba Pimen said, To throw yourself before God, not to measure your progress, to leave behind all self-will; these are the instruments for the work of the soul. The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Mother, Hard Work

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