Top 100 Older Men Quotes
#1. I can't get excited about a man until he's forty-two. I know this idiot girl who keeps telling me I ought to go to a head-shrinker; she says I have a father complex. Which is so merde. I simply trained myself to like older men, and it was the smartest thing I ever did.
Truman Capote
#2. In your mid-30s, it's time to start playing guys of compromise. And as you get older, men of bitter compromise
Tom Hanks
#3. In my book tours I get to meet an audience every night. And I see that there are mostly young people, and there are a lot of more men than before, but always young, I don't get older men. As I'm getting older, my audience gets younger!
Isabel Allende
#4. Older people exude bundles of sexuality. Older men and women tend not run around like cats and dogs in heat.
Jacqueline Bisset
#5. I date older men, and I date younger men. I have no rules about that.
Mary Frann
#6. I've always liked older men. They're just more attractive to me. Of course, at my age there aren't that many left!
Betty White
#8. In pre-colonial Africa, men who had sexual relationship with older men almost always married a woman later in life and had children. Exclusive homosexuality would not have been and is still not a viable option for Africans who value wealth and patronymic extension through marriage.
Chantal Zabus
#9. I'm not attracted to grumpy older men. Yeah, I'd just keep telling myself that.
Meghan Ciana Doidge
#10. It appeared the more religious and older men got, the more insatiable their appetite grew for teenage hymens; a short sighted, selfish, entitled and wicked appetite at that by the kind of men who were disillusioned enough to believe that the world revolved around their poles.
Dauglas Dauglas
#11. I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two.
Donatella Versace
#12. When you're a young boy, you're looking at older men for role modelling. Before I loved De Niro, I loved Clint Eastwood; I loved John Wayne. And James Bond.
Ben Mendelsohn
#13. Though a few older men cut fingers in time of grief, it is usually the smallest girls who are selected for this ceremony, and a woman in the valley whose left hand is not a stump is very rare.
Peter Matthiessen
#14. I'm not him because we die a little every day and by degrees we're reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars. I
Mark Lawrence
#15. He'd told her that young girls were always happiest with older men. Innocence and experience make for a perfect marriage.
George R R Martin
#16. I have gone out with younger men, and they're great fun; they've got enthusiasm. Stamina! But I think older men are much better lovers.
Jerry Hall
#17. It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to become current, and the older men who ought to be capable of taking them in freely, will not do so through prejudice.
Francis Galton
#18. I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.
Daphne Zuniga
#19. Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men.
John Eldredge
#20. I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up.
Helen Mirren
#21. The other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem of ... older men who prey on underage women ... There are consequences to decisions and ... one way or the other, people always wind up being held accountable.
William J. Clinton
#22. I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing, although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older, men get more distinguished.'
Scott Porter
#23. Oh.My. Every illegal swear word in the dictionary, God. What is it with older men? don't they ever look in the mirror?
Diane Messidoro
#24. I guess there are some women who like older men, but it's a smaller group.
Michael Douglas
#25. Stella says older men make better lovers; with boys our age, she says, the ice cream melts once the cone's in your hand.
David Mitchell
#26. Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.
David Guterson
#27. Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover
#28. Believe me, blond hair can take you really far, especially with the older men. It can really distract from the face. I am convinced I could have had sex with both Tony Bennett and John McCain if we weren't each happily married at the time we all met.
Amy Poehler
#29. Slightly older men and women, they had professions and soft slacks with knife pleats and a certain ease of bearing and belonging, the package of attitudes and values known as lifestyle
Don DeLillo
#30. I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.
Rene Russo
#31. Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men.
Harold Ramis
#32. There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
Tori Amos
#33. We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men.
Cesar Romero
#34. What older men and younger women have in common is they are both suffering from different insecurities. She is looking for someone to make her feel safe, and he is looking for someone who doesn't answer back and is a trophy.
Mark Barrowcliffe
#35. You've learned something very young, Prince, something that even older men rarely understand. You've learned that fear isn't a terrible-looking thing but something lovely and seductive.
Raymond E. Feist
#36. We die a little every day and by degrees we're reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.
Mark Lawrence
#37. The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.
Jean Giraudoux
#38. Grandma Mary would say, "That's why so many young women are marrying so many older men, because there aren't any more being raised. She would rather be an older man's sweetheart than a young man's fool and slave.
Lyanta' J. Tomlin
#39. Older men are wiser and that is much cooler to me. I've never been one for going out clubbing or getting off my head, so I always gravitated to men who were similar. They just tended to be older. I think you have more of an adventure with an older man. And a happier journey.
Emilia Fox
#40. I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers.
Gloria Steinem
#41. Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover
#43. All the older men are going for younger women, leaving the women with no one,
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
#44. Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.
Eileen Myles
#45. If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.
Romola Garai
#46. I'm too young for a man, but I'm too old for a boy. So, can't we just pretend, that I'm older than I really am, but then, only little girls pretend.
Tori Amos
#47. He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy.
Graham Greene
#48. As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of life approaches, till at last he comes forth only just before sundown, and gets all the walk that he requires in half an hour.
Henry David Thoreau
#49. I'm not an ageist, and I'm not looking for a man in a certain restrictive age range, however I've found over the years that people younger than me tend to be immature. The problem with this is that, as I get older, all the good men have already been snapped up.
Brett Kiellerop-Morris
#50. When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.
Henry Twells
#51. I don't have a lot of time for men in my life right now. Maybe I will when I'm older. Like 61.
"Scared Hitless
Carolyn Anderson-Jones
#52. I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.
Lara Flynn Boyle
#53. I feel like part of the inequality is that there are few great roles written for older women, and I think part of that is, basically, people want to look at young women, whereas men are still considered attractive - or more attractive - when they get older.
Erin Davie
#54. When I was twenty-five, I went on exactly four dates with a much older guy whom I'll call Peter Parker. I'm calling him Peter Parker because the actual guy's name was also alliterative, and because, well, it's my book and I'll name a guy I dated after Spider-Man's alter ego if I want to.
Mindy Kaling
#55. Stern and white as a tomb, older than the memory of the dead, and built by men or devils beyond the recording of myth, is the mansion in which we dwell.
Clark Ashton Smith
#56. Every man has problems that only life insurance can solve. In the young man's case, the problem is to create cash; for the older man, to conserve it.
Ben Feldman
#57. It doesn't surprise me that men in their twenties and thirties are often looking for a much older woman. What is the problem with a man of 30 being with a woman of 50? It is a matter of energy and the soul, not a matter of age of the body.
Monica Bellucci
#58. But as I got older I realized that the horrors are all done by men, twisting the word of God to suit their own desires for power.
April White
#59. Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll?
I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.
Cher
#60. It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.
Quincy Jones
#61. I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at all these men and boys! What material! With you and I, we can make a new world.
Adolf Hitler
#62. What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.
Dan Stevens
#63. The way you're smiling a little makes me think maybe you wouldn't mind an older man.
Jessica Hawkins
#64. I had never been attracted to younger guys. I had, from my late teens, always liked men who were older than me.
Annette Bening
#65. Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.
Oswald Chambers
#66. The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.
Frances Lear
#67. I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#68. I grew up in front of these people, and now they are seeing me as an 'older' young man.
Kobe Bryant
#69. Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It's one of things you'll have to get used to, as you get older.
David Eddings
#70. A woman can make a man feel older or younger than his years if she so chooses. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. Women were made with a sense of humor so they could love men instead of laughing at them.
Will Rogers
#71. In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#72. As I grew older, farms in Kentucky provided me with many jobs in hauling hay and in cutting tobacco. In addition to helping fund my college years, these jobs helped me to meet an array of very interesting and amazing men and women.
Robert H. Grubbs
#73. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash
Harper Lee
#74. Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.
Deborah Moggach
#75. One of the few ways in which I feel I've actually matured is that as I've grown older I do find the concept of 'men' mystifying, whereas when I was a feisty young thing I was forever saying 'The most fun part of being a feminist is frightening men!'
Julie Burchill
#76. Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.
Jeffrey Kluger
#77. As men and women get older, they get crustier and not more fun.
Matt Chandler
#78. As you get older naked stuff [on film] gets easier. It's more to do with the role than what men in the audience think. There's a liberation about it.
Helen Mirren
#79. Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny ... it is also her vulnerability.
Susan Sontag
#80. You'll understand me when you're older. Then you'll see how men can blind you. And I mean blind you. To the point that you're no longer yourself.
Francesca Marciano
#81. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
#82. If he were older and stronger, would he have given water to those men? Or would he, like most of the group, have kept his water for himself?
Linda Sue Park
#83. When fraternities are not allowed, Communism flourishes. Young men who are inexperienced but have faith are more useful than older, experienced men without faith. The fraternity system is a bastion of American strength.
Barry Goldwater
#84. I think men are mainly unfaithful because as they get older, they feel the urge to prove to themselves that they are still attractive. They need proof from outside the marriage. It's really sad. It's all about them. It's not about their wives at all.
Pattie Boyd
#85. She was my mirror image, slightly distorted, flipped, older, larger, more able to coexist with a pack of men. I'd be their pawn. She was their queen.
Aspen Matis
#86. If the principal smokers of cocaine were affluent older white men and the principal users of Viagra were young black men, using Viagra would land you time behind bars.
Ethan Nadelmann
#87. Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it.
Claire Tomalin
#88. I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?
Charles Dickens
#89. But I will say also on yer first day that the attractiveness of power is something you should learn about before you get too much older, it's the thing that separates men from boys, tho not in the way most men think.
Patrick Ness
#90. The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.
Swami Vivekananda
#91. I think all men when they get older, they look at the mirror and they probably see their father a little bit.
Christopher Walken
#92. Time is of the essence,
The crowd and players
Are the same age always,
But the man in the stand,
Is older every season.
Rolfe Humphries
#93. Men don't get smarter when they grow older. They just lose their hair.
Claudette Colbert
#94. Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Black Elk
#95. How do I think the industry's changed? Films have changed a lot. I think women are finally able to get older and be sexy just like men. So I'm really enjoying that part - that's my evolution.
Andie MacDowell
#96. I am the most skeptical of men in one of the most skeptical of professions in a world which regrettably holds out fewer and fewer dreams the older I get. But on the water, fly rod in hand, my dreams never desert me ... I am never without hope.
David Halberstam
#98. I don't believe men want women to have grotesque plastic surgery or be undernourished and bony. All the plastic surgery in the world can't stop you getting older.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#99. Maybe I should have been frightened of him. This older man who saw that I was alone, who felt like I owed him something, which was the worst thing a man like that could feel.
Emma Cline
#100. I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy." I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!
Paul Westerberg
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