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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
Persimmius. He is your man. You can find him in the old temple district, close to Shat Swamp.
— Scott Marlowe
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
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
— Joseph Joubert
A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.
— 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
"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.
My big fish must be somewhere.
— Ernest Hemingway,
that I realized that the blind old man who played the accordion on Main Street wasn't there anymore. He was gone.
— R.J. Palacio
Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'
— Nathan Kress
I am so old-fashioned. I've never lived with a man. I am completely about the independence of paying my own rent.
— Suheir Hammad
Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
There is a century-old saying, The dollar votes more times than the man.
— Michael Parenti
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
Old, is it?" the man asks.
"Yes, very."
"Pre-war, is it?"
"Yes," I say. "If by war you mean the Norman invasion. — Garrett Carr
"Yes, very."
"Pre-war, is it?"
"Yes," I say. "If by war you mean the Norman invasion. — Garrett Carr
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
That old woman taught me my catechism! said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.
— Don Herold
I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines ... imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the "Old Corps."
— Joshua R. Sands
I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.
— Hugh Downs
A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
— Groucho Marx
Maybe people would be surprised to know that I listen to old Neil Diamond albums from time to time. The man rocks. I defy anyone to prove me wrong.
— Mark Hoppus
The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.
— Charlie Bell
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
He remembered what the old man had said about offering something you didn't even have yet.
— Paulo Coelho
Free will was the greatest gift ever offered. God is not responsible for what we did with it. We are. - The Old Man And The Wasteland
— Nick Cole
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
For everything I wished were different about the old man, I found comfort in just as many things that never changed.
— Craig Lancaster
The old man pushed into his cane and heaved himself up. "Why do you waste your time, Meghan, running through the folds of it?
— Erin Cole
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
Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's raining, it's pouring, the old man
is snoring; went to bed and bumped his head and couldn't get up in
the morning. — Liane Moriarty
is snoring; went to bed and bumped his head and couldn't get up in
the morning. — Liane Moriarty
In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.
— Terry Pratchett
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
— Stephen King
They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
— A.E. Housman
As a ten-year-old boy, the Thief of Eddis could stop a grown man in his tracks with a single look. Where had that look gone?
— Megan Whalen Turner
It only shows how true the old saying is, that a man never knows what he can do till he tries, gentlemen. From "Pickwick Papers" ch. 49 page 646
— Charles Dickens
A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
— Bear Grylls
The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
The biggest surprise in a man's life is old age.
— Ben Kingsley
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
She ain't no whore," the old man had grumbled. "She's a lady. And the lady likes leather.
— Seth Skorkowsky
The old man heard the music of the imperialists issuing from the golden hotel, heavy with the gaiety of despair...
— Salman Rushdie
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
Twenty years old and this man stood ready to take on the world, all for the sake of our unborn baby.
— A.B. Shepherd
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
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
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
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
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
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
She had the right idea, old man, don't you think - to disappear before it gets too late?
— Patrick Modiano
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
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
March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.
— David McCord
Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.
— Rudyard Kipling
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
It is also to be noticed, that the old man is distinguished by his works, as a tree is by its fruits.
— John Calvin
As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty.
— Edward Abbey
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
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
"Die?" Matthew threw back. "Are you crazy? I'm not dead. I'm just very late. — J. Tonzelli
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
If thirty-two is old and decrepit, what does that make you, old man?" "Very valuable in the antique market." Dr.
— Marissa Meyer
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
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,
You bought me a beer," the old man said. "You are already a man.
— Ernest Hemingway,
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
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
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
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
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