Quotes on Older Man

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy. We manufacture stories, after all, from the fleeting sensory material that bombards us at every instant, a fragmented series of pictures, conversations, odors, and the touch of things and people. We delete most of it to live with some semblance of order, and the reshuffling of memory goes on until we die.

I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know your trade?" "Yes, sir!" the young man replied proudly. "Have you ever made a mistake?" the older man inquired. "No, sir!" the young man answered, feeling certain he would get the job. "Then there's no way I'm going to hire you," said the master carpenter, "because when you make one, you won't know how to fix it.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.