Old People Quotes

Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

THE BEST people are the good old wrinkled people with a sparkle in their eye, a wink when you walk by or a toothless smile saying you are doing just fine ...

~ Robert Wesley Miller

Older people sometimes talk about the good old days when life was better. In fact, they talk nostalgically about their own youth that was irretrievably gone. The past century has made enormous progress in all fields. The standard of living, work environment, health care quality and mobility, and the availability of cultural programs, recreational activities and information – all that clearly speaks in favor of nowadays.

~ Eraldo Banovac

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

~ Núria Añó

The adult age begins with the blessed single strand of a grey hair.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Age is only a number. Keep an active life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Appeal with respect to elderly people as you would to the members of your own family.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You are as young as you think.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Then, for no reason I could tell you, I tossed the spool again, even though Elaine had asked me not to. Maybe only because, in a way, him chasing a spool was like old people having their slow and careful version of sex - you might not want to watch it , you who are young and convinced that, when it comes to old age, an exception will be made in your case, but they still want to do it.

~ Stephen King

Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

...too often it's only children and old people who speak the truth. You just have to slow down and listen.

~ Eve Chase

They're like children, really. Only children are far more logical which makes it difficult sometimes with them. But these people are illogical, they want to be reassured by your telling them what they want to believe. Then they're quite happy again for a bit.

~ Agatha Christie

It is gracious to have old people full of vitality and endowed with wisdom in our society.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Blessed is the society that has oldies.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.

~ Núria Añó

Lucas felt uncommonly depressed and careless. Drunkenness, in a man like August Hay, melts the restraints on cheerfulness. On the contrary with Lucas: he kept up courage consciously. Sap his mind, and the lid was lifted from a cesspool of muddy colors.

~ John Updike

The paradox of life, I wish to have healthy long life. But no one wants to show the glory of the gray hair.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Take care of the elderly people.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We’re going down to the Margarita Grill to smell the lobster, then we’re going to watch the sunrise, and in between we’ll probably have hot, unsafe animal sex.

~ Darynda Jones

Do not forget you mother, when she is old.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it.

~ Munia Khan

Youthful exuberance is splendid.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.

~ Jacob M. Appel

Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones.

~ Amit Kalantri

What I'm going to do is pry every stinking tag off these f.ing chairs and make a f.ing collar and throw that cat right in Connor's puked-up face. Pale turd.

~ John Updike

Blessed are the elderly men and women.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church.

~ Barbara Comyns

The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.

~ Stephen King

The good thing about being old is not being young.

~ Stephen Richards

She looked at his face. So old and wrinkled. So beautiful and just right.

~ R.j. Lawrence

The glory of age is beauty of gray hair.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Age is glory.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The glory of the age is beauty of grayhair.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Never tease an old dog, he might have one bite left.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

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

There’s no accounting for the opinions of old ladies. They think everyone is cute.

~ Shannon Wiersbitzky

It’s just proper for old people to die. Otherwise, they’d go insane in a world too different from the one they knew.

~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza