Old Men Quotes
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Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.
Diogenes -
Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.
Augustus
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Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.
Honore de Balzac -
Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.
Charles Dickens -
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
Jonathan Swift