The Old Man's Boy Grows Older Quotes

“I reckon the years between forty and sixty are the best a man's apt to put in. He can do dang near anything as good as he could when he was a youngster, and what he can't jump over he's smart enough to walk around.”
― Robert Ruark, Old Man's Boy Grows Up

“The Old Man just claimed that the stature of the man was measured by how much he could smile when fate was beating him over the head with a stick.”
― Robert Ruark, The Old Man's Boy Grows Older

“he reckoned Somebody, no matter what name you called Him, was responsible for sun, moon, mountains, sea, stars, heat, cold, seasons, animals, birds, fish, and food—”even small boys, although that may have been a basic mistake”—and whether you called him God, Allah, Jehovah, or Mug-Mug didn’t make much difference as long as you believed in Him.”
― Robert Ruark, Old Man's Boy Grows Up

“At least if you can laugh instead of cry the troubles will either kill you or go away, and it is a bit better to die laughing than to die crying.”
― Robert Ruark, Old Man's Boy Grows Up

“you pinned me right down to it,” the Old Man said, “I don’t like nothing very much but a hot fire and a warm bed and a quiet woman to fetch me my food. I can generally manage the first two, but I been looking constantly for the basic ingredient of the third. Quiet, I mean.”
― Robert Ruark, Old Man's Boy Grows Up

“A brave man is frightened three times by a lion: when he first sees its track, when he first hears its roar, and when he first sees the lion in the flesh”
― Robert Ruark, The Old Man's Boy Grows Older

“A brave man is frightened three times by a lion: when he first sees its track, when he first hears its roar, and when he first sees the lion in the flesh.”
― Robert Ruark, Old Man's Boy Grows Up

“Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whisky to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got.”
― Robert Ruark, The Old Man's Boy Grows Older