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Old People Quotes

Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Old people with other old people r not so old ."
Old people with other old people r not so old . Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Old people, with other old people, are not so old."
Old people, with other old people, are not so old. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Craig Ferguson quote: "People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're..."
People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid. Craig Ferguson
People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. And you are not allowed to say, 'I don't like you,' unless that person has been horrible to you. Mark Haddon
Henry David Thoreau quote: "Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new."
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Henry David Thoreau
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness. Willa Cather
Craig Ferguson quote: "Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what..."
Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck. Craig Ferguson
Jonathan Carroll quote: "Old people are often impatient, but for what?"
Old people are often impatient, but for what? Jonathan Carroll
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: "Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for..."
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Agatha Christie quote: "The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old..."
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools. Agatha Christie
Henry David Thoreau quote: "What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you..."
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Henry David Thoreau
With a clamor of bells that set the swallows soaring, the Festival of Summer came to the city. Omelas, bright-towered by the sea. The rigging of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags. In the streets between houses with red roofs and painted walls, between old moss-grown gardens and under avenues of trees, past great parks and public buildings, processions moved. Some were decorous: old people in long stiff robes of mauve and grey, grave master workmen, quiet, merry women carrying their... Ursula K. Le Guin
You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. Herman Hesse
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility. Tom Wolfe
I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting. Mark Twain

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