Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
~ Ernest Hemingway
You ever try to beat your dad up? It just don't happen. He's got that old man strength.
~ Donald Cerrone
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
~ Mark Twain
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.
~ Augustus
My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
~ Sam Shepard