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Old Man Quotes

Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.

"Sardonic youth" by Andrew Male, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2007.

I'm an old man at 54, without teeth, and with rheumatism.

Said to Leon Goldensohn, March 3, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

Simultaneously I am myself, the child I was, the old man I will be.

Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.195, Penguin

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

My old man is a man of few words.

Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.

Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.409, Ageless Reads

Old men ought to be explorers.

Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

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.

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.7211, Simon and Schuster

I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.

"Calzaghe nicks round one". BBC Sport, February 08, 2008.

Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?

Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.6, Hamilton Books

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

Conrad Aiken (2015). “The Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken”, p.41, Open Road Media

To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.

"The Lower Depths". Play by Maxim Gorky, 1902.

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.28

The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell

James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.648, Library of America

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

William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.24

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

Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.145