Grumpy Old Men Quotes

#1. I'm not romantic at all. I'm a moaner. I should be on Grumpy Old Men. I'm terrible.

Bruno Tonioli

#2. Photography has fooled the world. There's no more convincing fraud. Its images are nothing but the expression of the invisible man working behind the camera. They are not reality, they form part of the language of culture.

Edmundo Desnoes

#3. When I did '21 Jump Street,' I felt like I was a part of something great, but on a very large scale. Working with people that genuinely want to make good art or good work or a good film, that's what keeps me going.

Spencer Boldman

#4. I must endeavor to subdue my mind to my fortune. I must learn to brook being happier than I deserve.

Jane Austen

#5. Since so much of the poetry machine is consumed in and with the mirroring and the reproduction of what is already preexistent, I don't understand why such paranoiac conservatism is dedicated to labels. It's a way of controlling the "other," to label them.

Fady Joudah

#6. When one has faith that the spring thaw will arrive, the winter winds seem to lose some of their punch.

Robert Veninga

#7. How to deal with problems in life. They are never asked for, but how we deal with them defines our future happiness or unhappiness.

David Michie

#8. With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.

Bela Bartok

#9. I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.

Michael Wilbon

#10. so your uncle tells
your brother,
"There's more
chairs in the
shed."

And your brother says,
under his breath
so almost no one
can hear, "Well,
what if I don't
want to sit
in the shed?

Hosho McCreesh

#11. You do something you're really quite proud of, and the public doesn't like it. Then you do something that perhaps you're not at all happy with and the public loves it. And that's the moment of truth, because it's the audience that's the final judge.

Les Dawson

#12. ... and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

John Irving

#13. I'm a grumpy old man. The older I get the more anti-social I get.

Sean Price

#14. It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.

Lance Armstrong