Old People Quotes

Old People Quote of the day

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

There are young people today that move like old people from eating too much junk food and not getting enough exercise.

I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!

It really hurts my feelings when people are mean to old people, or when people yell at their little kids. Just ask them what's wrong, bro. I think we all just need to be nicer.

It doesn't matter how old people are. It matters if they love each other and have fun with each other. It has nothing to do with age. To get old is a mental disease. Everything is in the head.

I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.

If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!

I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

You know what I always say about basketball whenever anybody tried to tell me the Knicks are gonna be good: They're old. Old people don't get healthy. They die.

Thats the hard part about sport: as men we havent started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.

If time heals all wounds, then why are there so many ticked off old people walking around.

Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need.

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look.

Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?

Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

I have an idea I want to test, for combining old peoples homes and orphanages. Old people are lonely without children, children are lonely without parents. Why not bring them together?

If someone says to you, Go to an old-folks home, thats kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life...whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms.

Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.

Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.

We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Why should old people get [Social Security]? They just sit around all day doing nothing.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.

Nothing is more usual than the sight of old people who yearn for retirement: and nothing is so rare than those who have retired and do not regret it.

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.

The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.