Old People Quotes - Page 13

• Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

  Hippocrates

  Funny, Fitness, Humor

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• Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Oil, People, Age

  Anzia Yezierska (1985). “Hungry hearts and other stories”, Persea Books

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• Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

  Joan Erikson

  Wise, Wisdom, People

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• Societies who do not care for their young people and old people are decadent, decaying societies.

  Suzan Shown Harjo

  People, Care, Young

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• Even during the promotion I told people that I didn't like Rush Hour. The jokes I didn't understand and the fighting, compared to my Hong Kong films was terrible. A lot of people didn't like it. But mostly people did like it, they really liked it. Rush Hour really brought me to the American family audience.

  Jackie Chan

  Fighting, People, Hong Kong

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Sleep, Eye, Curves

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books

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• Yes, well I do have plenty of clothes, jewels and money. However I don't ask for money for myself but if some one gives me money I take it and put it in The Eva Peron Foundation which gives huge amounts of money to the poor and helps to build hospitals , schools and old peoples' homes .

  Bill Vaughan

  Home, School, Jewels

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• I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Love, Funny, Happiness

  Theodore Martin Hesburgh (1979). “The Hesburgh Papers: Higher Values in Higher Education”

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• Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Sarcastic, Retirement

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• A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.

  Dorothea Kent

  Funny, Eye, Men

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• Old people, don't watch it because you might die just watching it.

  Jaromir Jagr

  Hockey, Nhl, People

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• When I told people I was going to be doing the movie and the voice of Dobby, they were kind of awestruck, the people who knew about Harry Potter. I felt rather guilty that I didn't really understand the scale of the job I was about to take on. Now, I am well aware of what I'm doing, and actually, it feels a very serious acting responsibility.

  Toby Jones

  Jobs, Responsibility, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

  Gerald Brenan

  Giving, Age, Aging

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• I would say that it's an awfully overrated aspirin and very similar to the old people's Disneyland.

  Don Van Vliet

  People, Drug, Aspirin

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• I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

  Ruby Wax

  Truth, People, Television

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• Nostalgia is heroin for old people.

  Dara O Briain

  Funny, People, Nostalgia

  Interview with Malcolm Hay, www.timeout.com. April 24, 2006.

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• The thing that keeps me going is that I love what I am doing. And I stay young because I don't hang around old people, if you hang around old people you are going to become old!

  Bob Proctor

  People, Young, Ifs

  Source: pavlinapapalouka.com

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• Longevity in my family's been pretty good. And my grandparents were pretty spry at their age, so I figured I'd probably stay skinny and fairly agile. I used to do old men all the time in sketches. And there used to be an organization called the Gray Panthers. And they would send me, oh, terrible letters about making fun of old people. And I would just always say, "I'm playing the old person I intend to become!"

  Dick Van Dyke

  Fun, Men, People

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• Marriage is a pretty amazing thing when you think about it. For two people to live together for so long under the same roof is a big accomplishment. Fifty-year anniversaries are becoming extinct, yet again proving that long marriages deserve awards and praise. Sometimes I see old people in restaurants sitting together eating their meals and I watch them. Sometimes it makes me sad. They don't even talk. Is it because they have nothing else to say, or can they simply read each other's mind by now?

  Jenny McCarthy

  Marriage, Thinking, Awards

  Jenny McCarthy (2007). “Life Laughs: The Naked Truth about Motherhood, Marriage, and Moving On”, p.89, Penguin

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• We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

  L. Neil Smith

  Children, People, Drug

  "How Many Americans Does It Take to Change a Dim Bulb?". Remarks to the Second Annual Freedom Summit, www.lneilsmith.org. October 12-13, 2002.

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• When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

  Joe Whitney

  Children, People, Accomplishment

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• Rand Paul and Chris Christie both said vaccinations should be a choice, not a government mandate. Because when have Republicans ever told people what they could do with their own bodies?

  Bill Maher

  Government, People, Choices

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• They say old people always come to Arizona, you know, to get recharged.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Nba, People

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• 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

  Lonely, Children, Home

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• I like old people when they have aged well.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  People, Wells

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