Old Man Quotes
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A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
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As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.
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My old man never liked me. He gave me my allowance in traveler's checks.
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Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.
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There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
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My old man is a man of few words.
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What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's part; if I were a swan, I would do as a swan. But now I am a rational creature, and I ought to praise God. This is my work. I do it, nor will I desert my post, so long as I am allowed to keep it. And I ask you to join me in this same song.
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It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness.
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To give pleasure to the old man, I clumsily tried to learn, and I was dreadfully bad.
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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.
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Falling on your face when you’re young and good looking is one thing, but when you’re an old man it can be quite humiliating.
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Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.
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I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything.
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Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!
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Each living creature is said to be alive and to be the same individual - as for example someone is said to be the same person from when he is a child until he comes to be an old man. And yet, if he's called the same, that's despite the fact that he's never made up from the same things, but is always being renewed, and losing what he had before, whether it's hair, or flesh, or bones, or blood, in fact the whole body.
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Nobody loves life like an old man.
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When my old man wanted sex, my mother would show him a picture of me.
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I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, "Wait til it gets warmer."
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With my old man I got no respect. I asked him, "How can I get my kite in the air?" He told me to run off a cliff.
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An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
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Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.
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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.
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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
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After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.
