Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him."
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Old Man
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Chinua Achebe
Novelist, Poet
"When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground."
T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"Old men ought to be explorers."
Scott Eastwood
Actor
"My old man is a man of few words."
Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."
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"Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?"
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"An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man."
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"Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!"
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"Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions."
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"The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell"
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"I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars."
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"My big fish must be somewhere."
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"Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm."
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"I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!"
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"Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste."
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"Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all."
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"Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?"
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"That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon."
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"One time I saw an old man in a hurry and I thought, 'That makes sense.'"
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"Time is never wasted coming to an old man bar."
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"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."
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"Now, the old man happened to be the Lord."
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"Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men."
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"Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]"
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"An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore."
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