Quotes on Old People

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.

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.

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.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

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

In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

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

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.