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Old People Quotes & Sayings

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When you get rid of all the older people, you get rid of all the wisdom. — Terraine Francois

Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted. — Anzia Yezierska

I'm one of those people that, if I'm in the country, I will have a look inside an old church. — Alison Goldfrapp

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today. — Franz Grillparzer

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. — Samuel Butler

Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion. — Ann-Margret

Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old. — Anna Paquin

It's just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they'd go insane in a world too different from the one they knew. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

The part of my plan that made old people uncomfortable, that exposed them for the bigots they were - and on a Sunday! - still appealed to me. — David Sedaris

When people sat in caves, they told stories. It was for sharing, learning, entertaining. Storytelling is as old as we are. It will never die. — Mark Rubinstein

There's no such thing, of course, as an old-fashioned gay guy. They're the most decadent people. — Norm MacDonald

There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be envious on God's blessings on their children. — Johnny Hunt

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

People of old deemed freedom from greed precious, and this is how they got beyond the world. — Zicheng Hong

I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated. — Laura Benanti

Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created. — Yoko Ono

Slot machines are like crack for old people. — Keenen Ivory Wayans

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to. — Rita Rudner

Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity. — Kilroy J. Oldster

It's not respectable,' she said.
And when people say that, it's no use
anyone's saying anything. — E. Nesbit

I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should stay married for life, like pigeons and Catholics. — Woody Allen

Nothing is more dangerous for society's future than having its young people grow old before their time. — Mal Fletcher

Most people die old, full of pain and regret. Or young and full of drugs and self-indulgence - or sheer bad luck. — Caroline Kepnes

John considered a young master as the natural enemy of an old servant, and young people in general as a poor contrivance for carrying on the world. — George Eliot

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

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly. — Ian Hislop

I will become an old, wrinkly lady one day and what will matter are my friends and my family and people who love me. — Sara Paxton

I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die. — Diplo

The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself. — Jim Butcher

Like a car that's old enough to be old but not old enough to be a classic, it would be years before people would again appreciate the old town square. — K. Martin Beckner

I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland. — Don Van Vliet

I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age. — William Steig

For a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Regardless of how old you are, who you were, now you are a peculiar people, specially called — Sunday Adelaja

Cynicism is a boring and dull old man's disease people have no business getting when they're young. — Erika Lopez

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really. — Andrew Davies

I hope people think of me as a bit older. I do have a beard. That makes me look very old. — Jack Whitehall

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

Whoever is missing in action turns
Into a flower, after he reappears
In stories, such as the old people were
Telling... — Simeon Dumdum Jr.

When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia. — Tony Benn

One of the reasons people get old - lose their aliveness - is that they get weighed down by all of their stuff. — Richard Leider

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

Time is a great deadener; people forget, get bored, grow old, go away. — Jeanette Winterson

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles. — Don Cheadle

May you live to be as old as 120 years old. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things. — Terry Jones

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

Valentine's Day is different for old people. At this age I receive chocolates in boxes shaped like artificial hearts. — Joan Rivers

Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard. — Grace Slick

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. — Russell Baker

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things ... — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

But you should never put a fifteen-year-old on a witness stand in a courtroom filled with a bunch of people he knows and expect a lot of tears. — Gillian Flynn

People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again. — Philippa Perry

My own philosophy is if you're not having sex, you're finished. It separates the girls from the old people. — Helen Gurley Brown

All these prohibitions old people think up. I think people should be free to do what they want unless it's hurting someone else. — John Updike

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

When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people. — Patti LaBelle

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

People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new. — Chamillionaire

Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change. — Therese Anne Fowler

I have no patience with people who grow old at sixty... Sixty should be the time to start something new, not put your feet up. — Mary Wesley

People don't talk about mercy very much these days - it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary — Alexander McCall Smith

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. — Milton A. Lee

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain old ordinary people. — Phil Gramm

Be nice to old people. — Jaime Murray

Few people know how to be old. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people. — Rickie Lee Jones

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse. — Hesketh Pearson

Autographs and pictures do get a little old, but I don't mind if the people want it. — Dominique Moceanu

I've been doing old-people things since I was a child. — Martha Plimpton

All new news is old news happening to new people — Malcolm Muggeridge

There are two political truisms: Old people vote and Republicans eat their young. — Eddie Whitlock

At 28 years old, seven years out of college, I was so convinced that my voice outed me as a fag that I had stopped speaking to people I didn't know. — Marlon James

Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck. — Craig Ferguson

People say my content's mature, I don't think it's mature at all. I'm just a normal 20 year old. I'm opinionated. — Amy Winehouse

I want players to look neat and responsible. Maybe it's old school, but it's kind of neat when people are always clean. — Joe Girardi

If people-young and old-can get one thing from my book I hope it is this: that there dream do count, no matter how big or small. — April E. Brucker

Frankly, I wish they would do 'The Bachelorette' for old people. And I could be the bachelorette. — Julie White

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. — Chinua Achebe

People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb. — Olivia Wilde

REFUSAL
When you refuse
to tell your weight
and age,
people know
you're fat and old. — Chocolate Waters

I'm driving my dad's old ute. So it's a manual ute. It's massive, so when people see me coming, they just kind of run away! — Bindi Irwin

If someone says to you, 'Go to an old-folks' home,' that's kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society. — Myron Scholes

There are only old people here. — Christie Walker Bos

It pleased him to see that things, and not only people, suffered the wear and tear of age. [53 yr old Inspector Bordelli's view] — Marco Vichi

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people. — Confucius

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war. — Erica Jong

That's great. I'm 100 years old and people are still interested. — Grant Fuhr

The older I get, the less I enjoy the presence of other people. — Tracy Guzeman

I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view. — Sonia Sotomayor

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. — Charles H. Brower

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

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do. — Wilfred Owen

There's 6.5 billion people curled up like fists protesting death, but every breath we take has to be given back; a nine year old boy taught me that. — Shane Koyczan

Let my people go — Anonymous

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it. — George Eliot

People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R. — Hideo Kojima

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. — Dolly Parton

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down. — Margaret Drabble