Top 100 Quotes About Old People
#1. 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
#2. I quit thinking long ago that all old people came to rest from the things they were out for in their younger years.
Saul Bellow
#3. Ignorance is a terrible thing. It causes families to lose their center and causes people to lose their control. Ignorance knows no binds. Old people, young people, middle-aged, black, white, can all be ignorant.
Maya Angelou
#4. 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.
George Carlin
#5. Uhhhhh. Without answering,I turned and hurried toward the back of the room, eaving around bodies on yoga mats in the center of the polished wood floor, thinking unkind thoughts about well-meaning old people who wanted to push me into being successful.
Jennifer Echols
#6. I didn't have a philosophical understanding of music until I came to New York. I didn't understand how it applied to my kind and my generation. I thought it was just old people talking.
Wynton Marsalis
#7. 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
#8. I've had old people in my life that I really loved - especially women - so I'm not scared about getting old. It's what's inside that makes us beautiful on the outside.
Monica Bellucci
#9. It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.
George Eliot
#10. It's the job of old people to disapprove of everything young people do ... If we don't disapprove, then the young have nothing to fight against and the world will never change. It cannot move on.
Mark Mills
#11. It is gracious to have old people full of vitality and endowed with wisdom in our society.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#12. I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.
Betty Friedan
#13. I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite.
Daphne Du Maurier
#14. Recently I've been dreaming
of cursing old people
with little provocation,
because their culture
has a long history of enslaving,
raping, and segregating,
and they have special lights
which prevent us from dancing.
Matthew Rohrer
#15. Why do you paint, Nona?"...
'I paint first to honor God who paints the sunsets and oceans and human hearts. And second, I paint so I don't get cranky like so many of the old people in this world.
Kimberly Stuart
#16. 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.
Vince Staples
#17. Of course, maybe I'd end up like one of those crazy old people with, like, sixty cats. And one day, the neighbors would complain about the smell, and it would turn out I'd died and the cats had eaten me.
Still, it might be nice to have a cat.
Alex Flinn
#18. I hate old people, I hate children. I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.
Joan Rivers
#19. There is a new survey out about the happiest professions. I think the whole premise is flawed. You're supposed to find true happiness outside of work. From friends, family, and YouTube videos of old people falling down.
Craig Ferguson
#20. Valentine's Day is different for old people. At this age I receive chocolates in boxes shaped like artificial hearts.
Joan Rivers
#21. When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.
Ernest Gaines
#23. My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know. I received a telegram from the old people's home: "Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Very sincerely yours." That doesn't mean anything. It might have been yesterday.
Albert Camus
#24. I wanted to ask which war
the Boer or the Crimean? It was amazing how old people could talk about The War, as though that meant something.
John Christopher
#25. I' tired of old people being labeled as worthless,useless,toothless and sexless
Claude Pepper
#26. They think old people are lame. But they're not. They're awesome, & I know exactly why I think so. It's because they've lived entire lifetimes. Loved. Laughed. Surrendered. Stumbled. Weathered, beaten, still they don't crumble, not even as they inch toward death.
Ellen Hopkins
#27. Like Lenny McLean said, and I agree with him totally, he told me it's these bastards that hurt the old people and fuck up the young kids, they are the animals and they hardly get any prison sentence for it.
Stephen Richards
#28. Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.
Henry David Thoreau
#29. I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.
Maya Angelou
#30. Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.
Leo Tolstoy
#31. I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
Harmony Korine
#32. George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.
Elisabeth Elliot
#33. I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates ... or with big dogs.
Maeve Binchy
#34. I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do all these plays with the old people. I did 'The Wizard of Oz;' it was adapted. There was a guy there who played the harmonica, so we had an overture, and The Wizard was 96.
Tony Danza
#35. The key is to photograph your obsessions, whether that's old people's hands or skyscrapers. Think of a blank canvas, because that's what you've got, and then think about what you want to see. Not anyone else.
David LaChapelle
#36. The visual conjured in Val's mind - all that parched, wrinkled flesh in furious friction - culminated in flames, as if some giant cosmic Boy Scout had decided to rub two old people together to make a fire.
Christopher Moore
#38. Is a one-way trip to Mars ever really seriously going to happen? Surely that's morally reprehensible. However old people are, however much they say they want to go on a one-way mission, people should be thinking about the possibility of returning.
Helen Sharman
#39. 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.
Matthieu Ricard
#40. The old people, they struggled, they fought the elements, they fought everything was against them here. The river, the summers and the heat. So finally when they settled Hurricane there and got the water on that bench, most of them left.
Calvin Johnson
#41. There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.
P. J. O'Rourke
#42. Why should old people get [Social Security]? They just sit around all day doing nothing.
Pat Paulsen
#43. Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time is think about how nice it was to be a teenager so long ago.
Aimee Bender
#44. I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them - they change their colors.
Banana Yoshimoto
#45. You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want.
Kathy Acker
#46. I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say 'retired' because that's such a finality that I don't want to be part of my life. I'll work until they throw me in a box.
Mario Andretti
#47. I don't aim it at anybody specific, I don't aim my characters to make old people laugh or young people or professionals or blue collar, just whatever I think is going to be funny and it just so happens that.
Jeff Dunham
#48. I thought that young people had more problems than old people ... Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems.
Andy Warhol
#49. Hello, nice to meet you, I sell unreadable books to weird old people - want to get dinner?
Robin Sloan
#50. When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia.
Tony Benn
#51. I'm overwhelmed with sadness for everything that was lost, and filled with anger toward the people who took it away. My people-or at least, my old people. I don't know who I am anymore, or where I belong.
That's not totally true ... I know I belong with Alex.
Lauren Oliver
#52. Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
Hippocrates
#53. Old people always tell you: 'When you've been around as long I have, then you can argue.' As soon as they're ripped off, it's a different story.
Doug Stanhope
#54. Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millepedes - with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other,
Kurt Vonnegut
#55. I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion.
Om Puri
#56. You flirt with everything." She could tell that her eyes were popping
her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. "You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.
Rainbow Rowell
#57. Never get behind old people. Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they have left
George Clooney
#58. Young people can remind us to take chances and be angry and stop our patterns. Old people can remind us to laugh more and get focused and make friends with our patterns.
Amy Poehler
#59. There'll always be a market for shit, of course. Just look at Jeffrey Archer! He writes like old people fuck doesn't he?
Stephen King
#60. Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard.
Grace Slick
#61. 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?
Zhou Xun
#63. 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
#64. That's what American democracy has come down to at these town hall meetings: old people and gun nuts, which is a terrible combination. I heard somebody yell 'AK-47!' and a lady yelled, 'Bingo!'
Bill Maher
#65. All my life I've wanted to see London. [ ... ] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.
Helene Hanff
#66. Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#67. And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millipedes - with babies' legs on one nds and old people's legs at the other
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#68. I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh.
Allan Carr
#69. Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars. (Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio-1986)
James Clavell
#70. That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.
Ilka Chase
#71. I did telemarketing for years, starting at the age of 16, just selling steak knives to old people. Old people go through a weird amount of steak knives. I also sold straight meat over the telephone.
Adam DeVine
#72. Certain very old people reach an age where every funeral becomes some sort of insane confirmation of strength, rather than of vulnerability, as it is when we are in our thirties or forties and our friends die.
Erica Jong
#73. 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
#74. The bus stops and out get the sort of people who travel by bus between cities: students, old people--mainly women--and the middle-aged who cannot afford the train and who have never grown old enough to drive. Out we get, and away we go, the young, the old, and the failed girls.
Joanna Walsh
#75. I spat out the appropriate response of bitter laughter. Heads turned to me again. I guess I wasn't looking too sane to the crumblies. [referring to the old people in the room]
Anthony McGowan
#76. What's sad is that an 80-year-old grandpa has to be the open-minded one. Old people aren't old because of their age, but because of what's in their heads. They are horrified at this, but they aren't horrified at what's happening in the streets?
Jose Mujica
#77. An old man with overalls walked by; I don't think old people should wear overalls; it makes them look like shrivelly toddlers.
Aimee Bender
#78. This is the lament of older women, and ultimately of all old people - that you become invisible. It is especially hard for women, though, whose entire lives have been spent spinning around the idea that if no one is staring at you, you've somehow failed.
Jessi Klein
#79. These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
Bam Margera
#80. Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.
David Ogilvy
#81. The old people must start talking and the young people must start listening.
Thomas Banyacya
#82. Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
Barbara Walters
#83. He knew that these creatures were dead, that they were reanimated echoes who wore the disguise of the people they had once been, but Tom's words rang in his mind. They used to be people. How could he strike them? How could he hurt them? Children, women, old people. Lost souls.
Jonathan Maberry
#84. Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.
Ernest Gaines
#85. When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
Erik Erikson
#86. When young people grow up ... they shine so much that old people want to avert their gaze.
Tite Kubo
#87. I don't find it surprising that super-old people are so odd and grumpy. Half their friends are dead, they feel like shit most of the time, and the next major event in their lives is going to be their last. They
Michael Marshall
#88. I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.
Len Goodman
#89. I think old people like Hillary Clinton and I shouldn't try and be cool with social networks, you know; maybe she should leave that stuff up to Chelsea.
Stanley Druckenmiller
#90. 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
#91. Old people always exaggerate the danger and lawlessness of their youth, thought Cam, because their adult lives have become so boring.
Wendy Wunder
#92. Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#93. Work, the old people say, keeps a man young. But perhaps that is something old folk say just because they know they must go on working.
Robin Hobb
#94. Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'
Viggo Mortensen
#95. 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.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#96. There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard.
'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people. Funny, really. I mean, you'd expect it to be the other way round.
Terry Pratchett
#97. I got a gerontology certificate a million years ago along with my law degree, so I've been interested in older people for many years. Some people grow up with a lot of kids around, but I just grew up with a lot of old people.
Elizabeth Strout
#98. In Washington, the air quality today was described as 'red.' ... You know what 'red' is? It's bad for everyone. Not just old people, sick people and babies. When it's just bad for old people, sick people and babies, that's called a Republican budget.
Bill Maher
#99. I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.
William Steig
#100. I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.
Ruby Wax
