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Old Men Quotes (page 3)

We were fond together because of the sweep of open places, the taste of wide winds, the sunlight, and the hopes in which we worked. The morning freshness of the world-to-be intoxicated us. We were wrought up with ideas inexpressible and vaporous, but to be fought for. We lived many lives in those whirling campaigns, never sparing ourselves: yet when we achieved and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake in the likeness of the former world they knew.... T. E. Lawrence
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.~ Gandalf to Pippin J. R. R. Tolkien
Perceptions of the modern masons ranged from their being a group of harmless old men who liked to play dress-up... all the way to an underground cabal of power brokers who ran the world. the truth, no doubt, was somewhere in the middle. Dan Brown
The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like two old men with bald heads pressed between the shoulders. Henryk Sienkiewicz
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?"
Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day? Ernest Hemingway
In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila. John Grisham
I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playingchess or silly games of some sort. Charles Bukowski
But you understand, you, my self, who always comes at a call (that would be a harrowing experience to call and for no one to come; that would make the midnight hollow, and explains the expression of old men in clubs--they have given up calling for a self who does not come) you understand that I am only superficially represented by what I was saying tonight. Underneath, and, at the moment when I am most disparate, I am also integrated. I sympathise effusively; I also sit like a toad in a hole,... Virginia Woolf
Cormac McCarthy quote: "Call it, friend-O" (No Country For Old Men)"
Call it, friend-O" (No Country For Old Men) Cormac McCarthy
Victor Hugo quote: "Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men."
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. Victor Hugo
Ben Folds quote: "A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've..."
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything. Ben Folds
With Ice Cube they ain't no telling. He might have one cocked and loaded, ready to bust. We might do The Sunday, two old men sitting around the house waiting on the social security check. Mike Epps
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example. Alexander Pope
William Shakespeare quote: "Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!"
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! William Shakespeare
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America. Theodore White

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