Being Old Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Being Old

Being Old Quotes & Sayings

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The tragedy of being old is you can no longer apply whats taken you so long to learn (Kissing The Beehive) — Jonathan Lethem

Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience ... when I was young I wasn't scared about anything — Thierry Henry

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group. — Stephen Tobolowsky

Put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; — Anonymous

Today I found out how old you are ... and that you don't like being hand-cuffed. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

The only good thing about being really really old is ..
it doesn't last long. — Lou Silluzio

African music, though very old, is always being rediscovered in the West. — Miriam Makeba

The good thing about being old is not being young. — Stephen Richards

Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in. — Malachy McCourt

Jason hated being old. — Rick Riordan

I'm so sorry I wasn't here sooner, but you'll have to forgive an old vampire for being a bit rusty in the dreamscape. — Sara Humphreys

Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency — P.S. Martinez

Imagine a twelve-year-old-girl.
Imagine her being attacked, raped and murdered.
Take your time.
Then imagine God.
M. Barin, poet — Hakan Nesser

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's. — Deepak Chopra

New words are always being born and old ones fading away. — Patience Strong

It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud. — Ian Somerhalder

I like being a 10-year-old kid who's in charge. — Tibor Kalman

Lack of education," old Mrs. Sharpe said thoughtfully, "is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive. They had no resources at all. — Josephine Tey

I had long hair since I was 17 years old. It was time for me to let go. I hated being the guy at the wedding in a suit with a ponytail. — Dave Grohl

There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything. — Fran Lebowitz

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk. — John C. Reilly

The true problem of old age is a young spirit being locked in an enfeebled body. — Eraldo Banovac

I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people. — Malachy McCourt

One cannot help being old, but one can resist being aged. — Samuel Hall Lord

I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old. — Paul Weller

Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books. — Ruth Ozeki

I'm 72-years-old. There's not a hell of a lot they can do to me. I will continue to report what I see and what I feel to be true. — Robert Novak

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous. — Barry Manilow

The way an Ugnaught gets to be an old Ugnaught is by being smart. — Timothy Zahn

In this night, pure and everlasting, like an old fairy tale, being Turkish felt infinitely better than being poor. — Orhan Pamuk

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old? — John Updike

I am not much for philosophy, but that old Descartes, he got me thinking. And therefore being. Anyone? Anyone? Cogito ergo sum jokes? No? Okay. — John Green

Not old enough to feel like an adult , really, but old enough to look like one, and to know the distinction between being carefree and careless. — Gregory Maguire

Success, for me, is being able to wake up in the morning and feel like a 12 year old. — John McAfee

Be nice to old people. — Jaime Murray

I guess if you're smart enough, you can do and say what you like and people just call you eccentric. It's like being old."
"Or rich," Alex said. — David Walton

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home. — Cameron Diaz

I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the very essence of one's being ... — Olivia Newton-John

Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love. — Bill Crawford

Today is my grandfather's birthday."
"How old is he?"
"Sixty-three. It's hard to believe he was once a human being. — Charles M. Schulz

Being physical and doing my own stunts - it is fun to do these kind of films once in a while, especially before you get too old. — Mads Mikkelsen

My goal is to be a great-looking 70-year-old! I won't mind being 70, but I want people to say, "You're 70?" — Michelle Obama

Talking with him was like being with an old friend; making love with him was like finding her other half. — Jeannie Moon

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

That's the problem with being born in New York, the old newsman observed a little sadly. You've got no New York to run away to. — Amor Towles

What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty? — Dorothea Benton Frank

I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. — Octavia E. Butler

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old. — Dinaw Mengestu

I do not like being an old gal. But I've decided to be the best old gal I know how to be. — Joanna J. Gnadt

Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows. — Marvin Hamlisch

... allow me to be an old man for a moment and to remind a young girl who is used to being impulsive that there can be none of that anymore. — Kristin Hannah

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill. — Ben Stein

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is. — Kenny Rogers

...thinking about laughing with 2 yr old Findlay today - Dostoyevsky was right, "The soul is healed by being with children." ... — John Geddes

Old age is not synonymous with being 'glad to die. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Being a noninvasive advanced civilization
was the biggest mistake of Batak Kingdom. — Toba Beta

Outrageous ... that wilfully selfish tyranny of silence evolved by a crafty old ostrich of a world for its own well-being and comfort. — Radclyffe Hall

The problem is that your daughter has given her heart to a 15-year-old boy, and a 15-year-old boy does not yet qualify as a human being. — Bill Cosby

I don't hate old men but listen when being spoken to. — Tyson Fury

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero. — Alex North

The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper. — John Mortimer

Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong. — Johnny Ramone

Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad. — Malcolm X

Here I am, an old man in a dry month,
Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. — T. S. Eliot

My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old. — Chris Robinson

I' tired of old people being labeled as worthless,useless,toothless and sexless — Claude Pepper

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love. — Jean Reno

We are two people who are madly in love with our old selves. And that is not the same as being in love. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good. — Charles Krauthammer

Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love ... — Nancy Mitford

I was always proud of being tough-minded, and I think I still am, but in my old age I've got a little softer in the head, and that's all right. — Nora Ephron

sarcastic. It was a crack at him being old school and set in his ways. The Metro was new — Michael Connelly

There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable. — Michelle Franklin

God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days. — J.R. Ward

There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin. — Craig Ferguson

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. — Miguel De Unamuno

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see. — Robert Charles Wilson

I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK. — Kurt Vonnegut

it wasn't that the forty-eight-year-old doctor didn't like people; he simply liked being alone better. — James Patterson

...some people here seem to have stepped through a time-warp -- old Romans being recycled with a mere change of costume. — Umberto Bartolomeo

Finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized. — Shere Hite

I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now. — Valerie June

Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one — Tom Peters

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed. — Bono

When women grow old and cease being women, they get beards on their chins; I wonder what men get when they grow old and cease to be men? — August Strindberg

There's a lot more to being a woman than being 18 years old on the cover of Maxim magazine. — Beth Broderick

Old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving. — M.F.K. Fisher

You can't stop going with an old friend on account of rumors, and on the other hand I had no intention of being rumored into marriage. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Maybe that old adage about not being able to have a good apartment, a good relationship, and a good job at the same time is true. — Padma Lakshmi

Time is endless for a being such as I. Power is the only master I trust." ~Lucifer — Annabell Cadiz

When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being. — Donald Hall

When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block. — Andre Maurois

It was like being around a particularly irritating two-year-old. — Charlaine Harris

You are never too old for applause. What's satisfying is that I'm being appreciated for what I was trained for. — Anupam Kher

Enjoy how sweet, how thoughtful, how kind I'm being on your birthday. Because tomorrow it's back to the same old crap. — Melvin Helitzer

Don't hold on to the old when you're being led somewhere new. Come out of your comfort zone. — Joel Osteen

I have a two-year-old boy. Being his mom feels like I have a present I get to spend the rest of my life opening. — Jewel

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House. — Louise Mensch

Getting old we can deal with. Being old is the problem — Mitch Albom