Old Man Quotes

A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man, Fishing alone in the cold river snow.

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life.

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.

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!

It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

With my old man I got no respect. When he took me hunting he gave me a three minute head start. Then on the way home he tied me to the fender and put the deer in the car.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

Never underestimate a backwoods Cajun in a fight, old man.

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

I remember filling my car up in London when an 85-year-old man said to me, 'You've done our age group proud.' That made me laugh. I'm not quite there yet!

I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

Be kind to an old man.

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.

Old ideas from an old man about an old vision of Europe.

I am an old man and I have seen things get revoked. Things which looked very irrevocable.

Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.

I don't go out and get arrested anymore. The most extravagant thing I do these days is play golf. I'm like an old man.

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.

Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here.

suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.

Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.

Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.

Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance.

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

Wow, Johnny. I send you out for reinforcements and you come back with an old man, a nerd and this little hobbit guy. Great job.

Some people have an inner child that speaks to them. I have an inner old man who just yells random [stuff] at me all day.

Australia is, in fact, an old man's bureaucracy.