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