Old Men Quotes

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

~ George S. Mcgovern

I don't know what you do about sex and I don't want to know, but this is not the way to go about it. You're what – fifty-two? Do you think a young girl finds any pleasure in going to bed with a man of that age? Do you think she finds it good to watch you in the middle of your...? Do you ever think about that?He is silent.Don't expect sympathy from me, David, and don't expect sympathy from anyone else either. No sympathy, no mercy, not in this day and age. Everyone's hand will be against you, and why not? Really, how could you?The old tone has entered, the tone of the last years of their married life: passionate recrimination. Even Rosalind must be aware of that. Yet perhaps she has a point. Perhaps it is the right of the young to be protected from the sight of their elders in the throes of passion. That is what whores are for, after all: to put up with the ecstasies of the unlovely.

~ J.m. Coetzee

There's no difference between a madman and a professor...it should be clear to you in the way they dress, act and think.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.

~ W.b. Yeats

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young...

~ J.k. Rowling

When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!

~ Stephen Richards

But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible! ...

~ Anne Frank

When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying.

~ Robert Ludlum