Old People Quotes - Page 6

• The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

  William Wordsworth

  Birthday, Wise, Time

  William Wordsworth, “Fountain, The: A Conversation”

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• I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Taken, Winter

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.10, University of Missouri Press

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• It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Cousin, Blood, People

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• It's the job of old people to disapprove of everything young people do. . .If we don't disapprove, then the young have nothing to fight against and the world will never change. It cannot move on.

  Mark Mills

  Jobs, Moving, Fighting

  Mark Mills (2008). “The Savage Garden”, p.71, Penguin

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• You are never too old to become younger!

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Humorous

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• He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  People, Progress, World

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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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• Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Wine

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• "If you paid me for work," continued Max, whose rhetoric was more sophisticated than you might expect from a man with food in his beard, "I wouldn't have to feel worthless. There's not law says old people have to feel worthless all the while, you know. You paid me, I'd have some dignity." Now it was Mile's turn to nod and smile agreeably. "I think the dignity ship set sail a long time ago, Dad."

  Richard Russo

  Dad, Men, Thinking

  "Empire Falls". Book by Richard Russo, May 8, 2001.

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• You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

  Hermann Hesse

  Taken, Men, Years

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.

  Tom Wolfe

  Years, America, People

  Tom Wolfe (2010). “Hooking Up”, p.1929, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.

  Craig Ferguson

  People, Secret, Luck

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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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• We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about. We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude. Nor must we forget that these old people were young once, that a lifespan is pathetically short, that one day you're twenty and the next day you're eighty.

  Muriel Barbery

  Thinking, Next Day, People

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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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• One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they are oppressed but don’t feel powerless. White people don’t feel oppressed, but feel powerless. Deconstruct that disempowerment. Part of the mythology that they’ve been teaching you is that you have no power. Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.

  Winona LaDuke

  Teaching, White, Differences

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• Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Dream, Memories, Past

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.520, Vintage

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• My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.

  Jay-Z

  Rap, Two, Years

  "Decoded". Book by Jay-Z, December 7, 2010.

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• Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Age, Aging, Young And Old

  "A sad affair" by Alberto Manguel, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2005.

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• When I was a small boy, old people used to squat down to my eye level and ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up, to which my answer was invariably, "a pirate." Their stunned silence was always very reassuring.

  Adam Young

  Eye, Boys, People

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• …that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.

  Louisa May Alcott

  People, Use, Littles

  Louisa May Alcott (2005). “Little Women ; Little Men ; Jo's Boys”, p.1003, Library of America

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• Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious taste of simplicity and deep peace.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Wisdom, Children, Lying

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• Cause hearts are amazing things. They get lots bigger to make room for new people to love alongside the old people you love. -Simi

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, People, Rooms

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• Those who love not their fellow-beings live unfruitful lives, and prepare for their old age a miserable grave.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Funny, Kindness, Age

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.51

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