Old People Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• My grandmother lived with us for a short time while I was a child. Old people tend to be slightly more eccentric - they can behave the way they want.

  Julie Walters

  Children, Grandmother, People

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• Slot machines are like crack for old people.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  People, Cracks, Machines

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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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• Sometimes you believe that you are targeting a 25-35-year-old young woman and you see that there is a crowd of 78-year-old people who are coming to buy some underwear, so it's not exactly the same kind of underwear that you have to sell.

  Maurice Levy

  Believe, Years, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Lame

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• I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!" "And it's kind of sad," said Tom, sitting still."There's nothing we can do to help them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Sitting Still, People

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• Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Birthday, Time, Regret

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 3, ch. 1

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• I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Time, Age, Saving

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• The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Time

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• The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean Girls, Women, Age

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• I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can.

  Harrison Ford

  Retirement, Children, Growing Up

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• 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

  Life, Children, Stupid

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• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Birthday, Wisdom

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.311, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever.

  Helen Mirren

  People, Thank God, Trying

  "Helen Mirren: 'I want to play Hamlet!'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2011.

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• Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Death, Senior, Retirement

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• 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

  War, Kids, Iran

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• Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Crazy, People, Information

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• Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

  David Ogilvy

  Thinking, People, Way

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.19, Profile Books

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• Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.

  Robert Orben

  Funny, Birthday, Fitness

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• Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

  Elvis Presley

  Funny, Time, Thinking

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• I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

  Rita Rudner

  Retirement, Age, Ears

  Rita Rudner (2008). “I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething”, p.238, Crown Archetype

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• The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

  Agatha Christie

  Thinking, People, Fool

  Agatha Christie (1967). “Murder in our midst”

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