Roger Kahn Quotes

When you are no longer a boy, you have to be tough.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

What defines someone as a 'man' should not be the clothes they wear or how deep their voice is. It should be the content of his character, his strength in the face of overwhelming adversity, and his ability to still love and help others when the world has turned its back on him.

Even in hell, if a man was a man, you'd know it.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

For souls nobly born, valor doesn't await the passing of years

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.

Peter Norman's a man's man.

Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

I always say my age is connected with three Cs. In here, cuore, which means the heart. Up here, cervello, which is the brain. And, of course, down here: the coglioni. I no feel my age, I tell you.

Steady of heart and stout of hand.

Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is one of the laws of beauty. Under the conditions of our climate, shadow gives light its worth; sternness enhances mildness; solemnity, splendor. Varying proportions of size support and subserve one another.

In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.

Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.

The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way.

One cannot run from a challenge without losing. To flee is signing a death warrant to dignity and character, and, having run, there is no return; one is a weakling forever. Meeting a challenge, though one may be defeated, gives strength, character, and a certain assurance that regardless of outcome, one will survive or go down fighting.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.