Quotes on Old People

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.

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.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

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

The ideas of individual supremacy and the right of free expression, when carried to excess, have not worked. They have made it difficult to keep America society cohesive. Asia can see it is not working.. In America itself, there is widespread crime and violence, old people feel forgotten, families are falling apart. And the media attacks the integrity and character of your leaders with impunity, drags down all those in authority and blames everyone but itself.

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

...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.

How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements?

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

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.

Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.