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I'm not romantic at all. I'm a moaner. I should be on Grumpy Old Men. I'm terrible. -- Bruno Tonioli
I knew from experience at the Negro Ensemble Company that it wasn't until there was a place controlled by black artists... that Pulitzer Prize-winning work like 'Ceremonies in Dark Old Men' and 'A Soldier's Play' came to fruition. -- Michael Schultz
I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles. -- Caleb Landry Jones
I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book. -- Zack Snyder
The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are different from 'Donnie Darko.' Look at the classics I've been in: 'No Country for Old Men'... 'Little Miss Sunshine'... 'Rain Man' was my first big studio movie! How lucky is that? -- Beth Grant
There's a sense you get from the Coens' work, like 'No Country for Old Men,' where you put these characters in situations, and you just let this painful amount of time take place. Part of the tension is just how long it takes to get out of that scene. -- Noah Hawley
It is always in season for old men to learn. -- Aeschylus
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. -- Victor Hugo
Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas. -- Robert Plant
A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything. -- Ben Folds
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! -- William Shakespeare
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. -- Augustus
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools. -- George Chapman
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.' -- William Butler Yeats
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. -- George Bernard Shaw
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. -- George McGovern
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean. -- H. P. Lovecraft
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
Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past. -- Charles Spurgeon
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were. -- Tom Waits
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
Every night, I say goodnight to the kids like Rajesh Khanna, muah muah, two kisses, say goodnight to my wife, and every night, I'd go to the recreation room and watch cricket with two old men. -- Cyrus Broacha
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. -- Brendan Behan
Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people. -- Chief Seattle
Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise. -- Sidney Sheldon
You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around. -- Clint Eastwood
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been. -- Chief Seattle
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul. -- Lady Gregory
I would love to play a villain someday in that I think that what I've done with my whole career is walk this tightrope between charming and creepy, and I always fall on the charming side. I'd like to fall on the creepy side and be like one of those scary old men, like really charming villains. -- Jason Segel
We fought in 1974 - that was a long time ago. After 1981, we became the best of friends. By 1984, we loved each other. I am not closer to anyone else in this life than I am to Muhammad Ali. Why? We were forged by that first fight in Zaire, and our lives are indelibly linked by memories and photographs, as young men and old men. -- George Foreman
Since the 1980s, I've been known more for my TV work, I used to host 'Live at Jongleurs' and of course 'Grumpy Old Men,' and so it's really all come from there. It's been a funny career really, there are people that know me now as a TV person, a comedian, an interviewer - I've had people genuinely gobsmacked to find out I am a musician. -- Rick Wakeman
Old men need applause too. -- Don Everly
Old men ought to be explorers. -- T. S. Eliot
Young men preen. Old men scheme. -- Mason Cooley
Men grow old quickly on the battlefield. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Old men dream dreams; young men see visions. -- Melvin B. Tolson
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks. -- Isaac Newton
Young men have visions, old men have dreams. -- Red Smith
Men become old, but they never become good. -- Oscar Wilde
Dirty old men, ignoring society, continue to follow nature. -- Mason Cooley
History -- its what those bitter old men write. -- Jackie Kennedy
When the old men fight, the young people die. -- Anne Fortier
War is young men dying and old men talking -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The old men know when an old man dies. -- Ogden Nash
Old men make war, young men fight and die -- Winston Churchill
Only little boys and old men sneer at love. -- Louis Auchincloss
Old men make wars that young men may die. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another. -- Mason Cooley
Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books. -- G. H. Hardy
Old men are always young enough to learn with profit. -- Aeschylus
It is always in season for old men to learn -- Aeschylus
Men should be explorers no matter how old they are. -- Don Ameche
The men of old breathed clear down to their heels. -- Zhuangzi
Years do not make sages; they only make old men. -- Sophie Swetchine
I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men. -- Janet Reno
Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men. -- George Herbert
Might not most men be as well named boys grown old. -- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart. -- Grantland Rice
Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles. -- John Donne
Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy. -- Gerard De Nerval
Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old. -- Meryl Streep
History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong. -- Steven J. Carroll
Softball is what old men play to try to feel young again. -- Patrick Wallace
Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun. -- Josephine Baker
In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. -- Oscar Wilde
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. -- Francis Bacon
The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you -- Seneca the Younger
The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men. -- Siri Hustvedt
I'm just an awkward old maid with a very great affection for men. -- Janet Reno
I don't think business news is just for old white men with money. -- Neil Cavuto
Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave. -- Caroline Norton
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. -- Colleen McCullough
Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. -- George Pickett
I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men. -- Jim Lehrer
The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors. -- Ambrose Bierce
The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit. -- Neal Stephenson
Young men think old men fools, old men know young men to be so. -- Pravinee Hurbungs
War is the game played by old men with the lives of the young -- Wilbur Smith
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both. -- Joseph Addison
[On men:] On their best days, the best of them are eight years old. -- Mary McGrory
Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long. -- Anita Brookner
We wait till now? Now, when we're old men, we get to be brave? -- Ernest Gaines
Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day? -- Ernest Hemingway
Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools. -- George Chapman
It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen. -- George Clooney
There we go again, old men and their stupid arguments. What a pain. ~Toshiro Hitsugaya -- Tite Kubo
Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles. -- Edward Young
The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men. -- Edith Hamilton
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. -- Stendhal
The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems. -- Art Hoppe
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place -- Pearl S. Buck
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men. -- Berthold Auerbach
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young. -- Augustus
Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine -- Frederick Douglass
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream! -- John Dryden
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Old men must die, or the word would grow moldy, would only breed the past again -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge. -- Samuel Richardson
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Iâ??m 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know? -- Barry Cryer
Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings. -- Mae West
Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows. -- Honore de Balzac
It is idle to dispute with old men. Their opinions, like their cranial sutures, are ossified. -- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all. -- Diogenes
All evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them. -- Jean Anouilh
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation. -- Chinua Achebe
When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war. -- Len Deighton
Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off. -- George Eliot
Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old. -- Michel de Montaigne
What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office? -- Jennifer Crusie
An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men. -- Charles Dickens
Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take. -- Sir John Davies

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