Old People Quotes - Page 3

• We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

  Jack Klugman

  People, Easy, Treats

  "Jack Klugman Dead: 'The Odd Couple' Actor Dies At 90" by Polly Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 24, 2012.

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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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• One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.

  Ronald Blythe

  Memories, Journey, Past

  Ronald Blythe (1979). “The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age”, p.38, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

  Plato

  Optimism, Age, Pressure

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.211, Xist Publishing

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• 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

  Hurt, Mean, Kids

  "Interview: Summertime '16 With Vince Staples". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• 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

  Birthday, People, Giving

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• There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

  Maggie Kuhn

  Funny, Goal, Age

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• Slot machines are like crack for old people.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  People, Cracks, Machines

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• 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

  Sadness, Who I Am, People

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• It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, People, Triumph

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• No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Birthday, Witty, Time

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1389, GENERAL PRESS

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• Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti. And 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," says Billy Pilgrim.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Stars, Two

  Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death”

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• You think Bernadette Maguire killed him?” “Uh… no. She’s, like I said, she’s old.” “Old people can kill people too.” “I know, but…” “She could be a ninja.” “She’s not a ninja, for God’s sake. She’s somebody’s great grandmother.” “I want you to think carefully about this, Kenny. Have you ever seen her with a sword?” “What?” “How about throwing stars?” “This is ridiculous.” “Have you ever seen her dressed up as a ninja? That would have been my first clue.” The girl sucked in her cheeks so she wouldn't laugh out loud.

  Derek Landy

  Girl, Stars, Grandmother

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• 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

  Children, Blow, Hands

  Willa Cather (2010). “Vintage Cather”, p.174, Vintage

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• Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

  James Clavell

  War, Teenager, People

  Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio, 1986.

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• Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Should Have, People, Soul

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR™S TALES (Holiday Classics Series): Including Anne Shirley Series”, p.636, e-artnow

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• See?" he said, with an unholy amount of glee. "I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often." "No. Trust me, you shouldn't," Eve said. "Think of all the little old people and the children.

  Rachel Caine

  Children, Thinking, Law

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• I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

  Dolly Parton

  Years, People, Shining

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• Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  People

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• It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

  Julie Walters

  Birthday, Thinking, People

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• By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Witty, Elderly

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• I came to hate the complainers, with their dry and crumbly lipsticks and their wrinkled rage and their stupid, flaccid, old-people sun hats with brims the breadth of Saturn's rings.

  Karen Russell

  Hate, Stupid, People

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• Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

  Bill Bryson

  Self, People, Would Be

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.75, VNR AG

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• She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Children, Believe, Nurse

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• Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that night long ago. It had become a ritual for us, as it does for all lovers: where, when, why? remember...I understand even old people rehearse their private religion of how they first loved, most guarded of secrets. And he would answer, sleep blurring his words, "Because I had to." The question and the answer were always the same. Why? Because I had to.

  Margaret George

  Lying, Sleep, Night

  Margaret George (2010). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel”, p.751, Macmillan

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