Old Man Quotes

My old man said, 'Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!' But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied, Lost the van and don't know where to roam.

The old man always said we should attend to the things we have some hope of understanding, and eternity isn't one of them. Well, this world isn't one either.

I'm a very old man. I've had lots of problems. Most of them never happened..!

An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.

How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

Old man take a look at my life, I'm a lot like you were.

A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.

Really, more than anything, The 2000 Year Old Man is a huge influence on all of our comedy, but specifically the live version of Oh, Hello.

When I was a kid, everybody that played golf was an old man. Until Tiger showed up, they weren't in very good shape.

It was one of the most disgusting spectacles I've ever seen-- this white-haired old man, who should have been thinking of the hereafter, standing there lying like an actor.

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

The old men know when an old man dies.

I'm an old man, and she's gone now. So don't worry, okay?

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

What’s going on?” he demanded. “The usual, old man,” I replied cheerily. “Danger, insane plans... you know, the stuff that runs in our family.

And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?

John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.

I thought we had lost you. I thought we'd done something worse than let you die.' His old arms were tight and strong about me. I was kind to the old man. I did not tell him they had.

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.

There isn't any New Man. The New Man is the old man, only he whines more.

Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.

There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

You must try to forget all you have learned,” said the old man. “You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.

The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.

Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such a look. Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas.

You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day.

I wish you would let an old man, who has had his share of fighting, remind you that battles, like hypotheses, are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.

I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.

If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D—— He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D—— since 1806.

When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say it makes an old man happy.

Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity!

...an old man is twice a child.

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?

I would dearly love to take up the brush again, but I realize that I am an old man and that I cannot set the world afire.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Old man with a young mind is much younger than the young man with an old mind!

Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people.

She looked at his face. So old and wrinkled. So beautiful and just right.

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.

You ever try to beat your dad up? It just don't happen. He's got that old man strength.