Quotes of: Old-man Keyword

My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.

Rick Bass

With George Clooney, the distinctive quality is a unique kind of American phoniness - charming because it's aware of itself as phony. It's as old as old Huck Finn, but, in our age, it has migrated from the fringes to the center.

Rich Cohen

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

Roger Zelazny

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Thomas Hardy

Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.

Thomas Willis

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Will Durant

I am a much happier 27-year-old than I was at 20 years old. I am so fortunate because I have an amazing family, amazing friends and a great support system.

Meryl Davis

I have a really amazing fan club, it's contemporary but it's a little bit old school. There's a lot of connection. I have a fan club president who really responds to people.

Martina McBride

It's sad to see old friends have to move away, but at the same time, you know the retirement home is the best place for them.

$3.33

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

Arrowsmith

Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I want to look into a mirror that will love my own reflection harder than I hate myself.

Healing Old Wounds With New Stitches

The moon is too old, the flower is too old;even the sunset is not enough. The only relevant metaphor for you is your mirror image.

I Love You Too

. . . Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to.

Rules for Old Men Waiting

Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.

No Country for Old Men

Did I just get psychically pimp-slapped by a little old lady?

Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

No Country for Old Men

Most people’ll run from their own mother to get to hug death by the neck. They cant wait to see him.

No Country for Old Men

... there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

The Left Hand of Darkness

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power, "age-old pastime of humanity".

A Lover's Discourse: Fragments