You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Marcus Aurelius
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You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my...
ROALD DAHL A young woman married to an old man must behave like an old woman.
VIKRANT PARSAI An old young man, will be a young old man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why p...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS Be kind to an old man.
WALTER CRONKITE Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
JOHN ADAMS Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS An old Man in a House is a good Sign.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the sta...
TINA FEY A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
STEVEN BRUST Call this an unfair generalization if you must,
but old people are no good at everything.
MOE Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
GEORGE SANTAYANA I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild...
ATTICUS POETRY There is an old proverb much in evidence now at the [National Opera]: If you want the flowers in you...
LORD HAREWOOD If you say, ‘Now I look like an old man’, you will start to look like an old man. If you say, �...
DADA BHAGWAN I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
THORNTON WILDER A young man idle, an old man needy.
ENGLISH PROVERB In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, youn...
PABLO CASALS Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY If you simply refuted and said 'it is impossible,' the old man would become either angry or sad.
ZHANG DANUO Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that...
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV Jason hated being an old man.
RICK RIORDAN Old man with a young mind is much younger than the young man with an old mind!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN You must try to forget all you have learned,' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this ...
SHERWOOD ANDERSON If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.
KATHARINE HEPBURN More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
SEAN CONNERY Old Rose is dead, that good old man,
We ne'er shall see him more;
He used to wear an old blue ...
OLD SONG I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
BERNARD BARUCH I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
BERNARD M. BARUCH I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
FRANCIS BACON, SR. I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
FRANCIS BACON SR. I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
FRANCIS BACON Since I came an adult - for more than 45 years - Marcus Aurelius has been my great idol.
HELMUT SCHMIDT An old man is twice a child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I don't feel like an old man.
GORDON JOHNSON To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.
ALEXANDER CHASE Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
CAESAR AUGUSTUS Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
AUGUSTUS An old man in love is like a flower in winter
PORTUGUESE PROVERB A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
E. W. HOWE A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
EDWARD W. HOWE A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the w...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.
GYPSY SMITH A child plays so as an old man he can be wise
JOEY NOVICK An old man loved is winter with flowers.
PROVERB I'm just an old man looking after cemeteries,
ZELL MILLER An old man loved is winter with flowers.
EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
SEAN CONNERY As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a p...
JAMES HONG I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking a...
JOHNNY DEPP I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at...
JOHNNY DEPP Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.
ERIC CLAPTON I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real lif...
PAT CONROY Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child.
PLATO My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If ever I cursed my white old man<...
LANGSTON HUGHES If you are a 24-year-old man, you believe that old age begins about 55 [while] if you are a 62-year-...
DOMINIC ABRAMS When an old man dies, a library burns down.
AFRICAN PROVERB An old man loved is a winter with flowers
GERMAN PROVERB No woman marries an old man for God's sake.
GERMAN PROVERB This boy needs a dog.
What makes you say that?
He needs someone or something to play with ...
KENT HARUF If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never...
JOE ABERCROMBIE I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel
HARUKI MURAKAMI If you have a 50-year-old man connecting to a bunch of 15-year-old girls, that's something you can l...
DANAH BOYD I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, lookin...
JOHNNY DEPP John Lee is dead, that good old man,--
We ne'er shall see him more:
He used to wear an old dra...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR When the Sun comes up a Lion awakens he knows that he must outrun the slowest Gazelle or he will sta...
AN OLD AFRICAN PROVERB It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
JOHN LEONARD A poor soul burdened with a corpse,' Epictetus calls you.
MARCUS AURELIUS They say with age comes wisdom but the wisdom that you acquire as an old man is really only worth ha...
CARL WHITE The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Man, you make me feel old.
KIRBY PUCKETT Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old ...
TOM TAYLOR No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child a...
JOHN CASSAVETES The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wi...
WILL DURANT The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.
GEORGE HERBERT If you're going to write an anthem for an old man who's up at political bat for the last tim...
SHAWN AMOS A man's thoughts dye his soul, attributed to Marcus Aurelius
ELISABETH ELLIOT A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.” –Marcus Aurelius...
FRANCINE JAY These guys keep me young, ... Any time you can see a young man grow up to be an old vet, it's always...
EARL HOLMES If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember th...
THOMAS J. WATSON He who teaches a boy teaches three: a youth, a young man, and an old man
GERMAN PROVERB As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an ...
MARCUS T. CICERO As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him,
so I am no less pleased with an o...
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an ol...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.
BILLY SUNDAY O doul on the day that gae me an old man.
JOHN BUNYAN An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
SIR WALTER SCOTT You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurt...
JOHN GREEN When you're a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can't even articulate and a kin...
NIC PIZZOLATTO Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
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MARCUS AURELIUS Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee
MARCUS AURELIUS The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere
MARCUS AURELIUS Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear
MARCUS AURELIUS If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing
MARCUS AURELIUS I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet ...
MARCUS AURELIUS Your face is black, your hair like flame, And one eye's damaged, one foot lame: If, still, you're qu...
MARCUS AURELIUS You ask me, Linus what my field out at Nomentum is to yield? Well this it yields to me: the view, my...
MARCUS AURELIUS To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize
MARCUS AURELIUS The height of farce it is, I ween, To be so perfumed and anointed, And when one's appetite's most ke...
MARCUS AURELIUS Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking
MARCUS AURELIUS Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dy...
MARCUS AURELIUS There is no glory in outstripping donkeys
MARCUS AURELIUS Why do you wrap up your neck in a woolen muffler when you are going to recite? The muffler would be ...
MARCUS AURELIUS I could do without your face, Chloe, and without your neck, and your hands, and your limbs, and to s...
MARCUS AURELIUS