Old Man Quotes

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.

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.

When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.

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

An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade.

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

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

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

Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

Tranquility is the old man's milk.

The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell

I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.

I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: "Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink."

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

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.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night.

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

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

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

Observation is an old man's memory.

I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

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

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

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

An old young man, will be a young old man.

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.

It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

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.

Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life.