Old Man Quotes
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Old Man Quotes & Sayings
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A man is as old as his arteries.
— Thomas Sydenham
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
What's going on?" he demanded.
"The usual, old man," I replied cheerily. "Danger, insane plans ... you know, the stuff that runs in our family. — Richelle Mead
"The usual, old man," I replied cheerily. "Danger, insane plans ... you know, the stuff that runs in our family. — Richelle Mead
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. — William Shakespeare
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. — William Shakespeare
I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
— Floyd Mayweather Jr.
I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth. — Atticus Poetry
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth. — Atticus Poetry
Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'
— Nathan Kress
I think I was around 15 when my Dad was 40 and thought, "Man he's old. There's no way I'll be skating at that age."
— Christian Hosoi
Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.
— Rita Rudner
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
And what was the song which she sang? Ah, my little man, I am too old to sing that song, and you too young to understand it.
— Charles Kingsley
You bought me a beer," the old man said. "You are already a man.
— Ernest Hemingway,
My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
— Sam Shepard
Oh merciful God, grant that the old Adam in this child may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in her....
— M.L. Stedman
Finn smiled ruefully. I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.
— Catherine Fisher
As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty.
— Edward Abbey
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
Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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
Blood is thicker than water,
The young man said
As he knifed his friend
For a drooling old bitch
And a house full of lies. — Ernest Hemingway,
The young man said
As he knifed his friend
For a drooling old bitch
And a house full of lies. — Ernest Hemingway,
Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.
— Vivian Mercier
The boy, a ten-year-old copy of the man...
— Billie Letts
I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity ... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.
— Fred Astaire
Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.
— Rudyard Kipling
When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning.
— Saib Tabrizi
The old man was cranky, bitter bastard, but it's the thorn in your side that leaves the biggest hole.
— Jodi Picoult
Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.
— Robin Boyd
An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.
— George Saville
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
To a man and woman, all of her elderly patients had been surprised to be old - which Avery privately regarded as a serious failure to pay attention.
— Lionel Shriver
The old man heard the music of the imperialists issuing from the golden hotel, heavy with the gaiety of despair...
— Salman Rushdie
It is also to be noticed, that the old man is distinguished by his works, as a tree is by its fruits.
— John Calvin
If thirty-two is old and decrepit, what does that make you, old man?" "Very valuable in the antique market." Dr.
— Marissa Meyer
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
— Miguel De Unamuno
Next door I could hear the old man's soul flap its heavy vermillion butterfly wings as the hustler shot a load down his throat.
— Tom Cardamone
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
— Seneca The Younger
My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.
— Tracy Chapman
Why you keep telling me to be careful, Old man ?
Your stupidity doesn't deserve my sacrifice, Kiddo. — Toba Beta
Your stupidity doesn't deserve my sacrifice, Kiddo. — Toba Beta
An old man in a house is a good sign.
— Benjamin Franklin
What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me!
— Rodney Dangerfield
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
Twenty years old and this man stood ready to take on the world, all for the sake of our unborn baby.
— A.B. Shepherd
A young dame with pretty eyes and a smile can make an old man do just about anything.
— Ernest Hemingway,
If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.
— Joyce Maynard
She had the right idea, old man, don't you think - to disappear before it gets too late?
— Patrick Modiano
Every old man that dies is a library that burns.
— Amadou Hampate Ba
Mathematics is as old as Man.
— Stefan Banach
You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.
— Rodney "Gipsy" Smith
Cynical, hell. I'm a healthy old man with a constitutional mistrust of paternalism and government in large doses.
— Harper Lee
You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die.
— Zora Neale Hurston
A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!
— Michel De Montaigne
He was a throwback to a lady's old romantic notion of how a man should act. [Giovanni Tempesta]
— Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco
He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong.
— Benjamin Franklin
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
Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.
— George R R Martin
Don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I
— John Green
I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
— Ian Hamilton Finlay
When my old man wanted sex, my mother would show him a picture of me.
— Rodney Dangerfield
Cynicism is a boring and dull old man's disease people have no business getting when they're young.
— Erika Lopez
A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I'll die a crazy old man!
— Conor McGregor
Man ate angels' food of old - and why not now? O for grace to feed on Jesus, and so to eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan this year!
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.
— David McCord
Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
— James A. Garfield
The Old Man ain't afraid of hell
— James Thurber
With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.
— Rodney Dangerfield
My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.
— Peter Matthiessen
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