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The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman. — Robert Downey Jr.

Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset. — M. Emmet Walsh

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. — Sydney J. Harris

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste. — John Donne

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I. — William Shakespeare

German reminded her of an old man hacking up phlegm. — Sara Shepard

Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

You never see an old man eating a Twix — Karl Pilkington

Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny. — Adam McKay

The writer, an old man with a white mustache, had some difficulty in getting into bed. — Sherwood Anderson

When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren't in very good shape. — Norm MacDonald

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces. — Alex Katz

I don't want to be an old-man filmmaker, making old-man movies, and I don't want to be the one not to know when to leave the party. — Quentin Tarantino

Be kind to an old man. — Walter Cronkite

I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth. — Atticus Poetry

You rely on your speed too much. A young man's vanity. An old man learns to absorb pain and wait for an opportunity. — Robert Ferrigno

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. — Augustus

Nobody loves life like an old man. — Sophocles

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended. — T. S. Eliot

They say an old man is twice a child — William Shakespeare

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too. — Christopher Lee

Jason hated being an old man. — Rick Riordan

Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here. — Donald Rumsfeld

No plumbline could fathom the depths of my faithlessness !! LMS says this to the rector who comes in to visit him in hospital as an old man !! — John Francis Byrne

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Francis Bacon

There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot. — Sam Snead

Observation is an old man's memory. — Jonathan Swift

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call. — William Butler Yeats

I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man. — Pat Conroy

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. — Will Durant

I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man. — Roberto Duran

I don't believe in a heaven or a hell or an old man sitting on a throne. I believe in a higher power bigger than me because that keeps me accountable. — Katy Perry

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

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache. — James Russell Lowell

An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper
forgetting age for a moment. — Mason Cooley

The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed. — Sherwood Anderson

If you want the advice of an old man, don't be afraid of making mistakes. That's life. Just be sure you're making them for the right reason. — Lou Harper

An old man's beliefs matter little. I am the past. You, the future. What are your beliefs? — Guillermo Del Toro

Nothing is more dishonourable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age. — Seneca.

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain! — Anna Garlin Spencer

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened." — Dale Carnegie

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. — George Santayana

Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man. — Frank Deford

I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight. — Bernard Hopkins

... allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that there can be none of that anymore. — Kristin Hannah

I didn't become an actor until I was an old man of 28 or 29. I declared to the world that I was an actor. Nobody heard me, but I did declare it. — Peter Falk

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse. — Samuel Johnson

Perhaps, after all, this world was made of dreams, and an old man had merely found the words for them. — Cornelia Funke

And, man he cried when he talked. He cried big tears, the kind it takes an old man to cry, the kind it takes a saxophone to play. — Robert James Waller

The worst thing an old man can be is a lover. — Thomas Otway

There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady. — John F. Kennedy

When you're a kid, somebody's mid-forties, you think they're an old man. Then you grow up and it's like, I was a kid. — Billy Bob Thornton

An old young man, will be a young old man. — Benjamin Franklin

An old autumn bench is no different than a king's throne for the humble man! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I do know that the world knows or thinks that I have money and lots of it. They perceive me as an old weak man and an easy target. — John McAfee

One time I saw an old man in a hurry and I thought, 'That makes sense.' — Demetri Martin

Suppose
Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head. — E. E. Cummings

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy. — Robin Boyd

There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and bigamy, sir, is a crime!' — William Cosmo Monkhouse

Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone! — Ken Watanabe

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning. — Amadou Hampate Ba

An old man with an ashen face and bulbous yellow eyes, — Teju Cole

Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. — T. S. Eliot

An old man in a house is a good sign. — Benjamin Franklin

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man. — Plato

The meanest man in the world," he remarked, "is the man who forgets the old friends that helped him on an early day and over early difficulties. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Wednesday walked out into the firelight, a big old man with a glass eye in a brown suit and an old Armani coat. — Neil Gaiman

i ain't got the energy to argue. i'm an old man and i got to take a shit. — Johnny Shaw

I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism. — Karl Donitz

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory. — James A. Garfield

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage. — Arthur J. Lamb

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head. — David Lloyd George

I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table. — Rodney "Gipsy" Smith

Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like ... an old man. — Michael Cera

I think of myself as an actor. The duty of an actor is to be able to impersonate anything - a child, an old man, a tree, a chair, a woman. — Barry Humphries

A young dame with pretty eyes and a smile can make an old man do just about anything. — Ernest Hemingway,

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian! — Michel De Montaigne

At heart, 'Chef' is a daddy-daycare fable about an overextended man who teaches his 10-year-old son the family business and learns to love him. — Richard Corliss

There's an old Cheyenne saying about how, when a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove. — Larissa Ione

I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers. — Jack Benny

The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs. — George Herbert

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man. — Brad Renfro

Just call me a family man and an actor who digs his whole scene, side interests and all. Just say I feel mighty good at the ripe old age of 27. — Bobby Darin

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso. — Sean Connery

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

Cardinal: You are a wise man. You will lead us well.
Mortati: I am an old man. I would lead you briefly. — Dan Brown

Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast. — Chinua Achebe

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old. — Nikolai Berdyaev

It was just as summer arrived that I met an old man named Fugui. — Yu Hua

When a young man talks to an old man, it is always a gift. — Avi

The detective had a kidnapping, he had a knife and he had blood. He had an insane old man. He was going in. — Darin Gibby

In India there's no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man's face and you'll find an old man's mind. — Meghna Pant

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

Is photography an art? There is no point in trying to find out if it is an art. Art is old-fashioned. We need something else. — Man Ray

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius

take it from an old man like me, life's too short to get hung up on a little bit of barbed wire — Theresa Shea

It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman. — Peter O'Toole

Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe. — Denis MacShane

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