Top 30 Poor Old Man Quotes
#1. for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. Poor old man, with a perfectly new heart!
Victor Hugo
#2. You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both.
William Shakespeare
#3. The door closed firmly, leaving the poor old man on the other side, staring speechlessly at it, wondering at the silliness of females and thanking his maker that his masters had never had daughters, before taking himself off to continue his afternoon duties.
Sarah MacLean
#4. I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
Josh Billings
#5. The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person,
videlicet, in a love-cause.
William Shakespeare
#6. An old man in poor health, like my rival, could not be expected to be so impressively feeble as a young actor in the prime of life. You see, he really had paralysis, and working within this definite limitation, he couldn't be so jolly paralytic as I was.
Anonymous
#7. I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes and the stars though his soul" - Victor Hugo
Alex Flinn
#8. I don't want to die with regrets. I like living and experiencing and feeling the whole lot.
Nick Love
#9. The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.
Daniel O'Connell
#10. There is an old poor man, ... Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.
William Shakespeare
#11. If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
Mackenzie King
#12. We all have the people we follow on Tumblr whose opinions or taste we respect. And I think because you see so much more variety of opinions and everything on the internet, it's less decided that something is good or bad. It's more like we all just sort of like what we like.
Tavi Gevinson
#13. I would rather be called funny than pretty.
Nia Vardalos
#14. Anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.
Ransom Riggs
#15. Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
Robin Hobb
#16. Song for the Puberty Rite of a Girl Named Cowaka:
A poor man takes the songs in his hand
And drops them near the place where the sun sets.
See, Cowaka, run to them and take them in your hand,
And place them under the sunset.
Frances Densmore
#17. And if ever I'm reduced to looking for a meaning to my life, you never can tell, it's in that old mess I'll stick my nose to begin with, the mess of that poor old uniparous whore and myself the last of my foul brood, neither man nor beast.
Samuel Beckett
#19. What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul
Victor Hugo
#20. Whether we are rich or poor, young or old, man or woman, straight or gay: all of us are called to our own brand of personal holiness.
James Martin
#21. All caught up in the trends, well the truth began to bend.
Jack Johnson
#22. I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.
Ernest Hemingway,
#23. and I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me; and if I'm not to have my rum now I'm a poor old hulk on a lee shore, my
Robert Louis Stevenson
#24. I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him with
a stick he was being driven to the Colmar slaughterhouse - haunted me for weeks.
Albert Schweitzer
#25. A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#26. It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our successes as well as our failures. Making it the city of all cities most like Man himself - loneliest creation of all this very old poor earth.
Nelson Algren
#27. Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#28. Fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven
Charles Dickens
#29. When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.
Red Cloud
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