Old Man Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Old Man

Old Man Quotes & Sayings

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A man is as old as his arteries. — Thomas Sydenham

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand. — Arnold Ross

The old man had often praised his strength. He had always been generous in his praise. It was all he had to give. — Anonymous

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

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. — William Shakespeare

Would you like to be young again? Play any kind of sport you used to? All day long, with no soreness the next day?"
"Who Wouldn't? — Lissa Price

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

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

It is better to beAn old man's derling than a yong man's werling. — John Heywood

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

Fuck me," said Roger. He spit a mouthful of stomach acid into the hall and looked at the bodies. "Look at the old man, going all Bruce Willis on us. — Peter Clines

You bought me a beer," the old man said. "You are already a man. — Ernest Hemingway,

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

My ideal man is dead white old and on a green sheet of paper. — Nicki Minaj

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,

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

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

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that. — Method Man

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

The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles. — Jack Huston

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 most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better. — Lee Iacocca

Man is a victim of dope
In the incurable form of hope! — Ogden Nash

This week, a 95-year-old woman married a 98-year-old man to become the world's oldest newlyweds. They're registered at Bed, Sponge Bath and Beyond. — Jimmy Fallon

The old man heard the music of the imperialists issuing from the golden hotel, heavy with the gaiety of despair... — Salman Rushdie

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

There isn't any New Man. The New Man is the old man, only he whines more. — Roseanne Barr

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

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

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

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

I want to reach everybody, from the little girls who are 3 years old, to the grandmother who watches my soap, to a young man in love. — Thalia

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

The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks! — Gene Mauch

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

I saved my soul, replied my father
For this, firstly, you should have one, old man — Yasmina Khadra

You'se something tuh make uh man forgit to git old and forgit tuh die. — Zora Neale Hurston

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself. — John Logan

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

... I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids. — Fred Gipson

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

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. — Francis Bacon

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

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD. — Anonymous

Well, how did you die, then?" the old man finally asked.
"Die?" Matthew threw back. "Are you crazy? I'm not dead. I'm just very late. — J. Tonzelli

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

Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were. — Neil Young

Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be. — Peter Matthiessen

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