quotes about Old Man
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Every old man that dies is a library that burns.
-- Amadou Hampate Ba -
I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.
-- Bernard HopkinsSource : "Calzaghe nicks round one". BBC Sport, February 08, 2008.
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Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.
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Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!
-- Conrad AikenSource : Conrad Aiken (2015). “The Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken”, p.41, Open Road Media
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Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?
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A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
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An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.
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That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.
-- Grace LinSource : "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon". Book by Grace Lin, www.today.com. July 1, 2009.
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Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man.
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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .
-- Joanna BaillieSource : Joanna Baillie (2001). “Plays on the Passions”, p.266, Broadview Press
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It is better to beAn old man's derling than a yong man's werling.
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All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold.
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I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.
-- John Sununu -
I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.
-- Karl DonitzSource : Said to Leon Goldensohn, March 3, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
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To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.
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Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.
-- Michael CeraSource : "Sardonic youth" by Andrew Male, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2007.
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Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
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Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.
-- Peter MatthiessenSource : Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.195, Penguin
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More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
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The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.
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When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?
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The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.
-- Thomas OtwaySource : Ambrose Philips, Jean Racine, Thomas Otway, Thomas Southern, Nicholas Rowe (1817). “Tragedy of the Distrest Mother Transl. from the Andromaque of Racine, with the Life of the Author by Johnson and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”
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You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.
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