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Quotes from The Old Man's Boy Grows Older — Robert Ruark

1915–1965 United States

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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.

The Old Man's Boy Grows Older (1957)

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.

The Old Man's Boy Grows Older (1957)

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.

The Old Man's Boy Grows Older (1957)

There is a saying among the Masai of Africa—or maybe it's the Somali—that 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.

The Old Man's Boy Grows Older (1957)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Ruark (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.