Old men Quotes

“The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold men who in their inmost souls are true and honest men who do not fear to call sin by its right name men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall. ”

“I just meant maybe you could set here and drink one of em with me.He squinted at her. You ever notice how women have trouble takin no for a answer? I think itstarts about age three.What about men?They get used to it. They better.”

“There is another version of the tale. That is the tale the women tell each other, in their private language that the men-children are not taught, and that the old men are too wise to learn. And in that version of the tale perhaps things happened differently. But then, that is a women's tale, and it is never told to men.”

“Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after forty, gives them leave to please themselves, and to mix a little liberally in their feasts the influence of Dionysos, that good deity who restores to younger men their gaiety and to old men their youth...fit to inspire old men with mettle to divert themselves in dancing and music; things of great use, and that they dare not attempt when sober.”

“The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.”

“It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.”

“It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.”

“It is always in season for old men to learn.”

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

“But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.”