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Old Man Quotes - Page 2

I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.

Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.26, Hueber Verlag

My big fish must be somewhere.

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.7213, Simon and Schuster

That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.

"Where the Mountain Meets the Moon". Book by Grace Lin, www.today.com. July 1, 2009.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.27, Hamilton Books

It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

Joanna Baillie (2001). “Plays on the Passions”, p.266, Broadview Press

Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.

George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.245

A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.

Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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

Ambrose Philips, Jean Racine, Thomas Otway, Thomas Southern, Nicholas Rowe (1817). “Tragedy of the Distrest Mother Transl. from the Andromaque of Racine, with the Life of the Author by Johnson and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”

The old men know when an old man dies.

Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

Old man! 'Tis not difficult to die.

'Manfred' (2nd ed., 1819) act 3, sc. 4, l. 151

She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.199, Penguin UK

Now, the old man happened to be the Lord.

Italo Calvino (2013). “Italian Folktales”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt