Old Lady Quotes

• A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

  Louis Nizer

  Beautiful, Art, Accidents

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• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Birthday, Beautiful, Wise

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  Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Birthday, Beauty, Life Changing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

  Samuel Ullman

  Birthday, Confidence, Self

  "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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• Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Writing, Scream

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• You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Humorous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Birthday, Success, Nursing

  Twitter post from Jan 3, 2018

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  There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

  Sophia Loren

  Life, Birthday, Death

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

  Perry Brass

  Men, Doors, Long

  Perry Brass (1998). “The Lover of My Soul: A Search for Ecstasy and Wisdom”, p.26, Perry Brass

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• If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

  Larry McMurtry

  Life, Waiting, Motorcycle

  Larry McMurtry (1989). “Some Can Whistle: A Novel”, Simon & Schuster

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• Appreciating old wine is like making love to a very old lady. It is possible. It can even be enjoyable. But it requires a bit of imagination.

  Andre Tchelistcheff

  Wine, Appreciate, Imagination

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• The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.

  Judy Horacek

  Lines, Grumpy, Young

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  How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

  Satchel Paige

  Happy Birthday, Baseball, Fun

  Quoted in Garson Kanin, It Takes a Long Time to Become Young (1978)

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• You're not supposed to cuss when you're an old lady, and just when there's so much more to cuss about.

  Peg Bracken

  Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books

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• To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Birthday, Time

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• When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Eye, Knowing

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.190, Penguin

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• One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Book, Two, Fifty

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• Remember that the old lady who's taking forever in line is someone's grandma

  Eric Stonestreet

  Grandma, Forever, Lines

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• What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative; what a kind, good-natured old creature we find her!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Giving, Balance, Looks

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1849). “Vanity fair. With illustr. by the author”, p.77

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• Besides, old ladies are always right. That's how they get to be so old. It's one of those things.

  Ian Kelsey

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• If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Humor, Men

  "And funny with it" by Christopher Goodwin, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2008.

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• You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear.

  Paul H. Dunn

  Self Confidence, Wrinkles, Inspirational Birthday

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• My daughter was asked by a little old lady in a London hotel restaurant what her daddy did. She answered, “He’s a pirate” - I was very proud of that answer.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, Daddy, Pirate

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• ... to say that the CIA and the KGB engage in similar practices is the equivalent of saying that the man who pushes an old lady into the path of a hurtling bus is not to be distinguished from the man who pushes an old lady out of the path of a hurtling bus: on the grounds that, after all, in both cases someone is pushing old ladies around.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Men, Practice, Kgb

  The Right Word (1996).

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