Top 100 Get Old Quotes
#2. All in all, I was harking back to the Ancient Greeks. When you get old, you always hark back to the Ancient Greeks.
Michel Houellebecq
#3. We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
Bernard Baruch
#5. People try to put us down
(Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Just because we get around
(Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Things they do look awful c-c-cold
(Talkin' 'bout my generation)
Hope I die before I get old.
Pete Townshend
#6. I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money.
Eric Heiden
#7. Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn't healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old!
Jenna McCarthy
#8. Don't ask why if you don't want to die. Do as you're told if you want to get old.
David Foster Wallace
#9. I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
Sting
#10. If we never have any adventures we'll have nothing to remember when we get old.
L.M. Montgomery
#11. The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.
Dee Hock
#12. Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things.
Theodore F. Green
#13. When you get old you begin to understand that no one talks unless someone listens, and no one knows nuthin' less somebody else can understand.
Walter Mosley
#14. If we piled them up, they would reach God.' 'But God does not exist, Comrade Farmer.' 'Nor do the potatoes, Comrade Stalin.' " "Old one." "Jokes only get old if they're good. Otherwise, who keeps telling them?" "People like you who aren't funny?
David Benioff
#15. Deep down in their psyches, both brothers were really just waiting to get old enough to sit on a porch and bang things with a shovel (Armed & Dangerous)
Abigail Roux
#17. You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns
#18. Integrity is the most important accessory you'll ever have, it will never go out of fashion, get old, or fade. It's the greatest investment you'll ever make, and a noble fight you'll spend your lifetime pursuing.
Alexis Jones
#19. Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
#20. Why wait to get old and dream about the things you could have done, when you can start now and look back on the things you did.
Allan Walsh
#22. I really hate to get old. I don't talk about it much. And sometimes at night I wake up and I have nightmares that I know how old I am.
Sirio Maccioni
#23. Do you realize why is it I'm so driven to operate within the Establishment? It's vengeance. 'Hope I die before I get old' is something I still have to live with, but not for the reason many people think. I have to be very, very vigilant not to become one of those people I despised.
Pete Townshend
#24. I don't ever want to get old. Spare me that. Have you the power? No, even you don't have the power, alas.
Julian Barnes
#25. This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you can't get fresh fruit in the shops.
Geoff Ryman
#26. She would go home and marry a man who owned carpet shops, and she would bear his children, and he would take other women to nightclubs, and she would get old and die and hope for better luck next time around.
Nick Hornby
#27. I'm not really sick of people whipping their hair. It doesn't really get old. They're fans and I love them! It's just a fun game to play.
Willow Smith
#28. 'My Fair Lady' will never get old for me.
Lisa O'Hare
#29. The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.
Carine Roitfeld
#30. We never thought we could ever get old.
Bob Dylan
#31. Now and then may not be enough ... You have to enjoy it while you're still young. enjoy it to the fullest. You can use the memories of what you did to warm your body after you get old and can't do it anymore.
Haruki Murakami
#32. Denial is for losers. Face your crap and move on. Otherwise you'll get old and depressed and turn into a scary pod person whose most pressing issue in life is when they get to trade in the can of Dr Pepper for the can of Bud.
Estelle Laure
#33. I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time
all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.
Jack Kerouac
#34. 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.
Nina Hagen
#35. Sometimes when you get old, you get a star on Hollywood Boulevard.
Jane Wiedlin
#37. We have to live with the certainty that we'll get old and that it won't look nice or be good or feel happy. And tell ourselves that it's nowt hat matters: to build something, now, at any price, using all our strength.
Muriel Barbery
#38. When you are young your body cannot handle alcohol, and when you get old your mind cannot handle it. Either way, alcohol has its way.
Robert Black
#39. You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.
Troy Dumais
#40. About the time we get old enough to be as wicked as we want to be, we don't want to be so very wicked after all.
Don Herold
#41. Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.
David Ogilvy
#42. The point of a true education is to, by the grace of God, learn how to refuse to let the soul get old.
Douglas Wilson
#43. My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.
Gianni Versace
#44. When you get old the worst thing is you lose so many friends. Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne. People who I loved to work with.
Kirk Douglas
#45. Her body felt like it'd been beaten with a hose. This must be what it felt like to get old. It wasn't that your body fell apart from living so long. It was that you had to take so many stompings from life that you'd be happy when the time came to close your eyes and never open them again.
Janet Fitch
#46. Look at that! Life's more science-fictiony by the day. It's not just that you get old and your kids leave; it's that the world zooms away and leaves you hankering for whatever decade you felt most comfy in.
David Mitchell
#47. Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for.
Janny Wurts
#48. We are lucky if our parents are still alive when we get old enough to appreciate them.
Wendy Lustbader
#49. Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you're twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive.
Camilla Lackberg
#50. I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it's a bad thing to get old.
Sophia Myles
#52. The three true ages of man are youth, middle age, and how the fuck did I get old so soon?
Stephen King
#53. When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.
Garrison Keillor
#54. Maybe there are only so many faces in the world. You get old enough, you start seeing 'em used again. Craw
Joe Abercrombie
#55. I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around.
GG Allin
#56. Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.
George Carlin
#57. You're born absolutely free except for laws of nature, if you drink you get drunk, that's a law, if you get old you die, that's a law too; if you sit on a tack you will bleed from the ass, these are the only laws that you're born with.
Doug Stanhope
#58. You get old faster when you think about retirement.
Toba Beta
#59. When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.
Ram Dass
#60. I mean, roots musicians - we can get old, you know? We can get up there and wear overalls and deliver the songs, we don't have to look any certain way.
Valerie June
#61. I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.
Judi Dench
#62. Don't let us get sick, don't let us get old, don't let us get stupid, alright? just make us be brave, and make us play nice, and let us be together tonight.
Warren Zevon
#63. Mothers shouldn't be allowed to get old and fragile.
J.A. Konrath
#64. If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.
Shooter Jennings
#65. If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.
Shaun White
#66. I love you. I want to do everything with you. I want to marry you and have kids with you and get old with you. And then I want to die the day before you do, so I never have to live without you.
Stacey Jay
#67. Singing about being rescued will never get old. Never.
Travis Thrasher
#68. I'm tired, my head hurts, and the last thing I want is to play referee between you two. Get over it. She storms off, unable to stop the smug smile stretching her face at their stunned silence. The way people respond to her demands - all flabbergasted and slack-jawed - will never get old.
Laura Kreitzer
#69. We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.
Paloma Faith
#70. But space shrinks when you get old, and things lose their wonder, and the wisest thing to do then is to try your best to sleep.
Dexter Palmer
#71. Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.
Iain Duncan Smith
#72. You've got to remember, the older you get the slower you get. I've seen a lot of players get old ... if I can have a good season in 1972 and come back with another good one, well, that's different. I might not quit. But two bad ones back to back and staying home would be written on the wall.
Hank Aaron
#73. You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
Garrison Keillor
#74. I hope I die before I get old
The Who
#76. I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.
Sid Vicious
#78. Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.
John Glenn
#79. This is what it means to get old, you don't look forward to pleasure so much as easing pain.
Philipp Meyer
#80. Oz has changed," Gert said. "The trees don't talk. The Pond of Truth tells lies, the wandering Water stays put. The Land of Naught is on fire. People are starting to get old. People are forgetting how it used tone.
Danielle Paige
#81. I want to write for people that are trying to do some kind of quality music. What I mean by quality music is not so much the trend, what is hot right now. I don't write trendy, I write what feels good and something that feels good will never get old. Timeless music is what I try to shoot for.
Ne-Yo
#82. It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.
Kevin Bacon
#83. If you know too much, you'll get old too soon.
Anonymous
#84. I glared at him. I may not die now ... but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old.
Stephenie Meyer
#85. Learn something new every day under the sun. You will never get old if you do.
Lois Aileen Bey
#86. Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
George Burns
#87. Don't look for someone you think you can change. Find someone you can love. Someone who will love you back, even if you get old and fat.
Brandon Shire
#88. Women are beautiful when they're young, and not after. Men can still preserve their sex appeal well into old age ... Some men can maintain, if they embrace it ... cragginess, weary masculinity. Women just get old and fat and wrinkly.
Tracy Letts
#89. Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
Dan Auerbach
#90. It's only in mirrors that people get old.
Marty Rubin
#91. Never fall asleep in a Dumpster, never underestimate a bee, never drive a convertible behind a flatbed truck, never get old, never get drunk near a train, and never, under any circumstances, cut off your air supply while masturbating.
David Sedaris
#92. We're all going to get old one day. So let's just love the age we've got and let's not crave the age we're not. Amen, sing it to your mama.
Neil Pasricha
#93. I haven't gotten fired from many jobs, but you finish a job and nine times out of ten you're just unemployed and you don't know where the next one is. And that does get old. It's stressful.
Tom Selleck
#94. The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind ...
Gabrielle Zevin
#95. Security is elusive. It's impossible. We all die. We all get old. We all get sick. People leave us. People change us. Nothing is secure.
Eve Ensler
#96. We can exhaust money. We can exhaust sex. We can exhaust our jobs. But we can't exhaust God. He gives us the one thing that will never run out, never get old, and never fail: himself!
Jefferson Bethke
#97. I like sweet wines. My idea has always been that when you're young, you like sweet wines; and then you get sophisticated, and you drink dry white; and then you get knowledgeable, and you drink heavy reds; and then you get old, and you drink sweet again.
Sally Jessy Raphael
#98. We were girls once. As hard as that is to believe. //Oh you can't see it now--our bodies have stretched and sagged, faces and necks drooping. That's what happens when you get old. Every part of you drops, as if the body is moving closer to where it's from and where it'll return.
Brit Bennett
#99. Those are my five greats for Georgia today. Those were my five greats yesterday and they will be tomorrow and the next day, until your kisses get old. Then I'll have to think of something else.
Amy Harmon
#100. Fussing keeps you sharp. When you get old, you need to stay sharp.
Terry Goodkind
