Top 100 Old Men Quotes
#2. Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
G.H. Hardy
#3. We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave?
Ernest Gaines
#4. I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
#5. Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em.
Aristophanes
#6. All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.
Grantland Rice
#7. The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
Ambrose Bierce
#8. When it comes to classic Disney, I've got it in my DNA. I mean, the guy who trained me, the man who mentored me when I first came to the Studio was Eric Larson, one of Walt's Nine Old Men.
Chris Buck
#9. Dad," I said quietly, "I've always made it a rule in my life not to pick fights with children, cute animals, or ignorant old men. I will, however, make an exception for you if you ever touch or insult my wife again.
Richelle Mead
#10. Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.
Vincent Massey
#11. I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a
coffee cup in a park for old men playing
chess or silly games of some sort.
Charles Bukowski
#12. War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.
George Carlin
#13. They are to be constant in the exercise of charity and almsgiving, to have a watchful care over all sick brethren, and to support and sustain all old men.
Charles G. Addison
#14. My dear,' said the old men gently, 'I think that you are repeating what you have heard older people say. You are pretending to be touchy; but you are not really. Stop being so tiresome, and tell me instead what part of the church you want to see. To take you to it will be a real pleasure.
E. M. Forster
#15. Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
Natasha Leggero
#16. Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
#17. Do not let me hear
Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession,
Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God.
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
T. S. Eliot
#18. Well,Sir," she began,"I am twenty-one years old & still a virgin. I have never experienced sexual intercourse. My hymen is not broken.Old men say that a virgin's Nectar is good for them. I understand that you want to buy. I want to sell."[MMT]
Nicholas Chong
#19. Softball is what old men play to try to feel young again.
Patrick Wallace
#20. You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.
Clint Eastwood
#21. We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial - I believe we are lost.
Erich Maria Remarque
#22. I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.
W.B.Yeats
#23. This is war: Boys flung into a breach Like shoveled earth; And old men, Broken, Driving rapidly before crowds of people In a glitter of silly decorations. Behind the boys And the old men, Life weeps, And shreds her garments To the blowing winds.
Amy Lowell
#24. I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.
Owen D. Young
#25. Maybe I should be a lawyer instead of a magical baker, Rose thought. Lawyers' mistakes rarely result in old men climbing on top of towers and taking off their pants.
~Bliss
Kathryn Littlewood
#26. Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
Diogenes
#27. I had spent the New Year's Day of old men, who differ on that day from their juniors, not because people have ceased to give them presents but because they themselves have ceased to believe in the New Year.
Marcel Proust
#28. Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave.
Samuel Hoffenstein
#29. Some cities are like joyful little children, they live for their summers, and other cities have personalities more like curmudgeonly old men who live for their winters, simply because it means they may wear big coats with lots of pockets to put their things in.
Benjamin Hale
#30. Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.
Alexander Pope
#31. Comparisons are inevitable, her face resembles her, he is like him and this old man is like that old man. This is taking things too far.All old men and women are alike. Ageing makes no discrimination between the beauty and the ugly.
Aporva Kala
#32. Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
Anatole France
#33. Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
Erica Jong
#34. I would love to play a villain someday in that I think that what I've done with my whole career is walk this tightrope between charming and creepy, and I always fall on the charming side. I'd like to fall on the creepy side and be like one of those scary old men, like really charming villains.
Jason Segel
#35. Men - not just babies like you, but old men, too - they always need to have a woman tell them the truth. Les hommes, ils sont impossibles.
James Baldwin
#36. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon
#37. While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.
Thomas Jefferson
#38. And if other old men must be willing, at the end, to push up off their deathbed and adventure out into the unknown, how much more willing must that man be whose whole life has been just such a daily exercise of adventuring, even in the stillness of his own garden? I mean, the poet.
David Malouf
#39. In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns
Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.
John Grisham
#40. I knew from experience at the Negro Ensemble Company that it wasn't until there was a place controlled by black artists ... that Pulitzer Prize-winning work like 'Ceremonies in Dark Old Men' and 'A Soldier's Play' came to fruition.
Michael Schultz
#41. That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#42. Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
Euripides
#43. Old men want to feel that the experience which has come with their years is valuable, that their advice is valuable, that they possess a sagacity that could be obtained only through experience - a sagacity that could be of use to young men if only young men would ask.
Robert A. Caro
#44. It is always in season for old men to learn.
Aeschylus
#45. I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.
Keri Hilson
#46. I then watched filing past and besieging me old men in search of easy revenue, young men in search of adventure to occupy their leisure. My successive refusals gave me in town the reputation of a 'lioness' or 'mad woman.' Who let loose this greedy pack of hounds after me?
Mariama Ba
#47. I'm 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know?
Barry Cryer
#48. No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
Isaac Newton
#49. I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.
Samuel Johnson
#50. Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging think amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams.
William Shakespeare
#51. Like old men and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little.
Victor Hugo
#52. Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.
Sir John Davies
#53. In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.
Michael Crichton
#54. If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
Daniel Cudmore
#55. Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature.
Mason Cooley
#56. I believe in prophetic speech . . . still. I believe in Cassandra, I believe in Electra and in the charming Antigone. . . . For me, they're more alive than the [Institute for] Intellectual Cooperation and its choice group of old men.
Gabriella Mistral
#57. Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.
Jean De La Bruyere
#58. But why would Victor and Robert take her? And how the hell did two old men subdue a teenage girl anyway?
Richelle Mead
#59. That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#60. Old women are more reconciled to death than old men. By bringing life to the world, we come to see ourselves as debtors. What's given is taken.
R. Scott Bakker
#63. The old men send the young to die in war,
But if the roles were reversed, what then the score?
Alan Cook
#64. The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like two old men with bald heads pressed between the shoulders.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#65. Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.
Robert Plant
#66. Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.
Chief Seattle
#67. Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Alexander Pope
#69. The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient beauty of youth, are so apt to awaken in the bosom of the aged.
Lydia M. Child
#72. In the smoky firelight the two old men nodded off like a pair of ancient kings passing the aeons in their tumuli. Made a musical notation of their snores. Elgar is to be played by a bass tuba, Ayrs a bassoon.
David Mitchell
#73. She had often dreamed of going to a teahouse to play chess or argue esoteric scholarly points with students and feisty old men and women. It was a dream forbidden to a royal princess, of course.
Liz Braswell
#74. Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
Oscar Wilde
#75. And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
Joel Osteen
#76. They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.
Booth Tarkington
#77. Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
Theodore White
#78. It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.
Eric Clapton
#79. I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.
John Updike
#80. It is wonderful to me that old men should not be sensible that their minds keep pace with their bodies in the progress of decay.
Thomas Jefferson
#84. It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
Lady Gregory
#85. The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
Colleen McCullough
#86. Perceptions of the modern masons ranged from their being a group of harmless old men who liked to play dress-up ... all the way to an underground cabal of power brokers who ran the world. the truth, no doubt, was somewhere in the middle.
Dan Brown
#87. Truth had hanged the way the landscape had changed to accommodate progress, altered by each generation to its purpose. He had learned from the talk of old men that there was no such thing as truth, truth was always shaded by perception and expectation.
William Gay
#88. Young men have visions, old men have dreams.
Red Smith
#89. The thing I don't get about paedophilia ... Why the hell do kids find old men in dirty raincoats so sexy?
Frankie Boyle
#90. Now, he told me, I could see what humanity was worth. It could form the conception of justice, but could not trust its flesh to provide judges. Whatever it started was likely to end in old men raving. There was ruin everywhere and we should see more of it.
Rebecca West
#91. This sort of talk always bores me: old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs. It's so banal.
Robert Harris
#92. Three old men with moon-silver hair and slow, ponderous movement took him in their arms and laid him on a marble slab and set silver coins on his eyes and swung incense over him, murmuring as
priests do to fill what might otherwise be a god-sent silence.
M.C. Scott
#93. Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
Honore De Balzac
#95. A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.
John Jay Chapman
#96. All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.
Charles Frazier
#97. I had always been a boy in this place, and many of the trees and rocks and streams had been old men when I knew them. Some had died. All had changed. I knew that. I had changed the most.
Dan Groat
#98. Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,
that of being judged by their peers.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#99. Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft.
Ray Bradbury
#100. The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there.
R.S. Thomas
