There I sat in the sun, watching half a dozen pairs and one slow but cheerful foursome pass by waving their mallets, thinking my old man's thoughts and letting the sun warm my old man's bones.

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A drunk mans' words are a sober mans' thoughts.
UNKNOWN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.
GEORGE HERBERT

An old wise mans shaddow is better then a young buzzards sword.
GEORGE HERBERT Any finish at Le Mans is great but every time I go to Le Mans my mission is to win.
TOM KRISTENSEN remember an old mans ballsack is like christmas tree ornaments, they are only there for decoration.
NEGRO FRIJOLES One mans stupidity is another mans wisdom.
LINDSAY KOLB

you left
and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
who was willing to stay
RUPI KAUR

I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies, and as soon as I was able to get a sub...
AMY HECKERLING

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is...
WILLIAM BLAKE

A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.
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JAMES LITTLE Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my ...
DANNIKA DARK

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and th...
JOHN DONNE

Perhaps I am broken, he conceded silently, but broken bones heal stronger, and I will have...
PETER V. BRETT It's a mans world influenced by women.
JAMES BRADLEY SINCLAIR The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their...
ALFRED KREYMBORG Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I sat by the river and silence heard my thoughts.
SIR KRISTIAN GOLDMUND AUMANN There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
AMBROSE BIERCE There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know
AMBROSE BIERCE In the summer, we write life’s summary with the slow waves of love flowing over the sandy beach. T...
DEBASISH MRIDHA confirms all my worst fears ... The Sun has done the House a favor by exposing the amateurish and ol...
PETER HAIN My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to...
CARROLL SHELBY Constant travel brings old age upon a man; a horse becomes old by being constantly tied up; lack of ...
CHANAKYA Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, a...
RAINA TELGEMEIER And as a cloud passed over the sun, sending the scene into shadows, the last thing Agatha saw was a ...
SOMAN CHAINANI Grandmother was always regretting the old days-she was younger in old days,and the sun was warmer in...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY My last race was at Le Mans in 2000, my first race was in 1959, so I dodged a lot of bullets along t...
MARIO ANDRETTI Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...
Otherwis...
MARYUM AHSAM For a cheerful mind, sun never sets; for a cheerless mind, sun never rises!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The spinsters and the knitters in the sun And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do u...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE She was the light of my world, but with her sun gone down I notice the twinkling of the stars beyond...
PATANOIA PER PATANOESIS I’m quietly sipping my coffee,
sitting on the deck,
settled in to my little jungle of he...
ANNA ASCHE The inspiration for this was my son, who's 18, ... I was playing some old Sun Records, and he and hi...
BRIAN SETZER Hope is the poore mans bread.
GEORGE HERBERT Simplicity make no mans great, but makes life easier and not complicated.
BRADLEY B. DALINA He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.
DOUGLAS ADAMS A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.
PROVERB I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold, And the stars g...
BAYARD TAYLOR But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, ...
BAYARD TAYLOR The years passed like the steps of a staircase leading lower and lower. I did not walk any more in t...
ANNA KAVAN Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.
SAM ELLIOTT If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill Veeck.
CHARLES KURALT The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.
GEORGE HERBERT I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.
EDGAR WRIGHT England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, rule...
GEORGE ORWELL I change my old routine and I was going to do a new one. But I went back to my old routine. It wasn'...
BIANCA LOFFREDO Prayer is mans greatest power!
W. CLEMENT STONE Never rub another mans rhubarb
JACK NICHOLSON A mans discontent is his worst evill.
GEORGE HERBERT You will never know of another mans heart ache by words alone
DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS That old berk," muttered Aberforth, taking another swig of mead. "Thought the sun shone out of my br...
J.K. ROWLING As I sat in the sun on the wooden dock that jutted out into the pond, I knew this to be true: my nam...
W. BRUCE CAMERON The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE Well, what shall I say; our inward thoughts, do they ever show outwardly? There may be a great fire ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH As I was walking up the stairs to my dad's old room, and I was looking at the old photographs, I sta...
STEPHEN CHOBOSKY Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store.
GEORGE HERBERT I've been to 20 Burning Mans, and I've never seen a better one. The group that came this year was a ...
LARRY HARVEY Learn to Love like the Sun warm and bright.
ROYALTON AMBROSE How old is the sun? Sun not temporary, not chronological. There is the terra-celestial and the celes...
PETER TOSH The stars the moon and the sun...so old, so wise. Think of what they've seen
E. PALUSZAK The stars the moon and the sun...so old, so wise. Think of what they've seen
E. PALUSZAK There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of...
PABLO PICASSO Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rha...
BRIAN WILSON If everything has happen in one day and there isn't sun rise and sun arise,... so logicaly everythin...
DEYTH BANGER There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of...
PABLO PICASSO I was Raised Round Junkies,Drunkies and real sluts Holding a poor mans rifle when there is beef not ...
NOBLE DA GENIUS "Horas non numero nisi serenas." There stands in the garden of old St. Mark A sun dial quaint ...
BISHOP WILLIAM CROSWELL DOANE Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass,
That I may see my shadow as I pass.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I spent the first summer after my diagnosis creeping about in giant sun hats and tents, cursing the ...
JANE GREEN I had watched a dozen comets ... slowly creep across the sky as each one signed its sweeping flouris...
DAVID LEVY My mom always had me and my brother watching old Fred Astaire movies.
SAVION GLOVER But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.
WILFRED OWEN The bottom half of my ankle is the one that's keeping me from working because it blew all my bones a...
CRAIG TRIMBLE The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
JON KRAKAUER I have seen them stagger out of their movie palaces and blink their empty eyes in the face of realit...
JOHN FANTE I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
EARL WEAVER I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in ...
TED NAIFEH My bosses said, 'He's a mean, old man. He's not going to talk to a kid like you who's just starting ...
ERNIE HARWELL He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ I can't let Peter beat me, ... When there's a big meet, I like to swim a fast time. I didn't want to...
KLETE KELLER Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
E.E. CUMMINGS Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.
GEORGE HERBERT Both of my parents are actors and directors and whatnot. My dad loves really solid, old school, Broa...
WILL ROTHHAAR And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open ...
ERIKA SLEZAK I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by...
STEVIE SMITH This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyon...
BYRON DORGAN As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start ...
STEPHEN KING An average 90-year-old patient arrives with a half-dozen diseases and a half-dozen medications. Many...
JOEL SELIGMAN Universe is the Sun watching its own self.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC A wicked mans gift hath a touch of his master.
GEORGE HERBERT A valiant mans looke is more then a cowards sword.
GEORGE HERBERT Death comes to all
But great achievements raise a monument
Which shall endure until the sun ...
GEORGE FABRICIUS I must have been six or seven years old at the time. My family lived on the bottom floor of a two-st...
REGIS PHILBIN I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY This cannot be correct. I can think of at least half a dozen different lines of evidence that say th...
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There I sat in the sun, watching half a dozen pairs and one slow but cheerful foursome pass by waving their mallets, thinking my old man's thoughts and letting the sun warm my old man's bones.

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There I sat in the sun, watching half a dozen pairs and one slow but cheerful foursome pass by waving their mallets, thinking my old man's thoughts and letting the sun warm my old man's bones.

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