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250 Old People quotes by 217 unique authors

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… — Mark Mills
He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools. — Agatha Christie
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,… — Richard Russo
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.… — Hermann Hesse
She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little… — Daphne du Maurier
it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things... — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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,… — Tom Wolfe
Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck. — Craig Ferguson
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
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… — Muriel Barbery
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… — Ray Bradbury
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… — Winona LaDuke
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… — Leo Tolstoy
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… — Jay-Z
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… — Adam Young
…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use. — Louisa May Alcott
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… — Bill Bryson
Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see… — Kurt Vonnegut
You think Bernadette Maguire killed him?” “Uh… no. She’s, like I said, she’s old.” “Old people can kill people too.” “I know, but…” “She could… — Derek Landy
...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… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness. — Willa Cather
See?" he said, with an unholy amount of glee. "I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often." "No. Trust me, you… — Rachel Caine
People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people… — Mark Haddon

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