Top 100 You're Old Quotes
#1. You dont have to know a soul to know what I know
to expect what I'm expecting
to feel yourself alive and dying in your chest every minute of the livelong day
When you're young you wanta cry, when you're old you wanta die. But that's too deep for you now, Ti mon Pousse
Jack Kerouac
#2. When you're old nobody touches you nobody listens to you - not in this bloody country.so that's what I do. I touch and I listen.
Rose Tremain
#3. You're old for so much longer than you're young, she thinks. Really it hardly seems fair.
Anne Tyler
#4. One of the great jokes of life is that by the time you're old enough to recognize how little you know, all you can do is mop up the aftermath, dump it in a giant personal hazmat container and move on.
Virginia DeBerry
#5. I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
Agnes Varda
#6. If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.
Jaron Lanier
#7. In Europe and Britain they seem to be much more accepting and embracing of older bands, whereas in America if you've been out for three years, you're old, and I think that attitude stinks.
John Bush
#8. Like I say, it just creeps up on you. One day you're young and the next day your bosoms and your chin drops and you're wearing a rubber girdle. But you don't know you're old.
Fannie Flagg
#10. And so I write this for you, My Sarah. With the hope that one day, when you're old enough, this story that lives with me, will live with you as well. When a story is told, it is not forgotten. It becomes something else, a memory of who we were; the hope of what we can become.
Tatiana De Rosnay
#11. It's interesting when you're old enough to take a new, objective approach looking at your parents, frame them in a way where you are actually taking yourself out of the equation and just look at the things that are true about their life.
Robert Downey Jr.
#12. Today, folks, should be all about love. Unless you're old.
Stephen Colbert
#13. And I have lifetimes inside me, I'm the girl you see standing here,and I'm a cranky old professor, and I'm a peace-loving man, and I'm a killer and a maid and a king and a peasant. I am a dozen more. You think you're old? You got nothing on me.
Derek Landy
#14. People don't love each other at our age, Marthe - they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.
Albert Camus
#15. The best revenge is to live well, and rub their noses in it when you're old and powerful.
Debra Dunbar
#16. I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.
Randy Savage
#17. Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.
Douglas Rushkoff
#18. When you're young you think you know it all, when you're old you wish you could remember it all.
T.A. Uner
#19. When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.
Sally Field
#20. You must take a year off, one of these days, before you're old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away somewhere, and read. Read all the important books. Educate yourself, then you'll see the world in a different way.
Helon Habila
#21. If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
B.F. Skinner
#22. Wait until you're old, Nora," she said, "and then you'll know. It's the mixture of being content with even the smallest thing and then feeling a great dissatisfaction with everything.
Colm Toibin
#23. It never seemed fair that just when you're old enough to do anything you want, you can't. You have to start working, so there's no time. And if there is time, you're not working, so there's no money.
Terri Farley
#24. They all think I'm gonna leave you crying in your coffee 'cause you're old.
Mary Calmes
#25. When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it.
Brigitte Bardot
#26. You're thinking about how it's morning now or night and the next thing you know, you're old.
Haruki Murakami
#27. You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.
Phyllis Diller
#28. One of the hardest aspects of this protracted public persona is not knowing others as well as they feel they know me. It's a rather clumsy feeling actually; to not know someone who acts as though you're old friends.
Christopher Knight
#29. It might have been the seventies, but if you're old enough for a moustache you're too old for strawberry-patterned trousers.
Jo Wood
#30. Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.
Wilkie Collins
#31. One way or the other, come back to me, in a month, or a year, when you're old, a haunt in my dreams, an invasion of my sanity, make a way to come back.
Lila Felix
#32. I thought that's what happened to women: You live alone when you're old.
Jen Kirkman
#33. When you're old-fashioned like I am, you know marriage is forever. Those vows are a promise.
Brad Paisley
#34. When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you're an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
Roald Dahl
#35. If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
Pat Paulsen
#36. Don't be fooled by youth. You're old enough to know what experience is good for.
Julie Berry
#37. A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.
Miguel Syjuco
#38. I can't believe you're old enough to have your purpose," Mom says with a sigh. "Makes me feel old."
"You are old.
Cynthia Hand
#39. Things sure are easy to get done when you're old and everyone thinks you're senile.
Carolyn Brown
#40. I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
Michael Caine
#41. Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.
Yoko Ono
#42. You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.
Noel Coward
#43. When you're young, you need to be careful not to bite off more than you can chew.
When you're old, you need to be careful not to bite off more than you can suck.
Peter James West
#44. They say the first thing to go when you're old is your legs or your eyesight. It isn't true. The first thing to go is parallel parking.
Kurt Vonnegut
#45. To me, feeling good about yourself as you get older is all about your attitude - if you think you're old, you'll feel old.
Lulu
#46. Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business
you have to dig out a little place that's only yours.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#47. Forty being the "precise age where you're old enough and young enough to handle a revelation".
Liane Moriarty
#48. The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!
Pearl White
#49. I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
Liv Tyler
#50. You know you're old when you're watching Karate Kid and you realize you're more attracted to Mr. Miagi than Ralph Macchio.
Hayley Linfield
#51. Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better.
Elvis Costello
#52. If you don't do anything stupid when you're young, you won't remember something funny when you're old.
Auliq Ice
#53. You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.
John Brunner
#54. Unfortunately, the feelings arrive before you're old enough to handle them.
Doreen Owens Malek
#55. Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.
Penn Jillette
#56. When you're young
a pair of
female
high-heeled shoes
just sitting
alone
in the closet
can fire your
bones;
when you're old
it's just
a pair of shoes
without
anybody
in them
and
just as
well.
Charles Bukowski
#57. Ninety isn't old. You're old when your doctor doesn't X-ray you any more - he just holds you up to the light!
Red Buttons
#58. The first time you meet someone, they're a new acquaintance, the second time you have a bit of an understanding, and the third time you meet them, you're old hats.
Kathryn Minshew
#59. What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only 'friend,' at least until you're old enough to go to school.
Koren Zailckas
#60. Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.
Joan Crawford
#61. The things you get fired for when you're young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you're old.
Francis Ford Coppola
#62. You know you're old when your walker has an airbag.
Phyllis Diller
#63. Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago ...
George Burns
#64. If you're old and you're healthy and you're active - I don't mean you have to be politically active - if you remain interested in other people and the world, then you live as well as your health will allow.
Grace Paley
#65. I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.
Flavor Flav
#66. It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France.' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.
Grace Slick
#67. It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.
Mark Twain
#68. What did the ancients say? 'To love when you're old is a grave misfortune?' No shit. Especially when you're a weathered crock in love with an immortal boy.
Rachael Eyre
#69. If you're good enough, you're old enough.
Freddy Adu
#70. People assume that I'm wiser than I am because I'm somewhat successful. Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. If you're dumb when you're young, you're going to be dumb when you're old.
Estelle Getty
#71. Fourth period I have "life skills", which is what they call gym when you're old enough to be offended by forced physical activity (Elody thinks they should call it slavery instead, for accuracy).
Lauren Oliver
#72. I know people say 'what about when you're old and you're covered in tattoos?' - so what. Anyway, in time to come everyone will have them and it will be all the trend, won't it? 'Cuz you don't know how the times are gonna change.
Cher Lloyd
#73. Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this ridiculous invisibility for women between the ages of 40 and 60. Unless you're old enough to play a grandmother, there just aren't the roles.
Amanda Donohoe
#74. If you're old and you lose, they say you're outmoded. If you're young and you lose, they say you're green. So don't lose.
Terry Brennan
#75. Why should you expect everything to work out successful? You're old enough to know better.
James Purdy
#76. You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type.
Phyllis Diller
#77. You've got to remember that 25 is a great time because, you know, you're passed that 21 thing and it's a high point, a high peak, in life where you're old enough to say what you have discovered, but you're still open to discovering more.
Stevie Wonder
#78. When you're young and good-looking, you've got to behave. But when you're old, you can get away with murder.
Julie Newmar
#79. You know you're old when the president is younger than you.
Steve Kangas
#80. When you're old, do you really want to look back at your life and realize that you were never young?
Kyra Davis
#82. You know you're old when you've lost all your marvels.
Mary Browne
#83. You know you're old when your family talk about you in front of you. What are we going to do with Pop? We have company tonight.
Rodney Dangerfield
#84. I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.
Rafael Nadal
#85. I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.
Kinky Friedman
#88. You're perfect. To me you are. You always will be. When you're small you think that about your parents. When you're old, you think that about your kids. You'll see.
Cristina Alger
#89. You're old. You're senile. You're too calm about this. Something must be wrong ... "
"Wonderful. I'll pull out my hair and chase butterflies around the room.
John Grisham
#90. You're old when you're old. Why should you be limited by someone else's expectations?
Lynne Cox
#91. In the performer's body, you don't care how you look. It doesn't matter if you're old, fat, beautiful, or ugly. It doesn't change anything. The only thing is your charisma and how you express your idea.
Marina Abramovic
#92. Look at yourself, you're old, too, but still doing your work. This is what we are, Philips. This is what we are.
Waheed Ibne Musa
#93. When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old enough now to identify them very strongly as being young - whereas before, of course they were young, because you were young. Now it's not like that.
Martin Amis
#94. I'm young enough to enjoy life, and you're old enough to mind your own business.
Virginia Aird
#95. When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#96. Pursue money while you're alive, so that poverty will not pursue you when you're old.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#97. 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
#99. If the stories of our faith are such that you're too young to remember them, then you are not old enough to preach.
Fred B. Craddock
#100. Serpine: No, my old enemy, I think for the moment anyway, we're all alone. And you have something I want
Skulduggery: A winning sense of style?
Derek Landy
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