Older people Quote by Catherine M. Wilson

“Age doesn't cure foolishness—it only tells everyone that someone is an old fool rather than a young one,”

— Connie Suttle

“There were worse things than being young and foolish.”

— Cathie Pelletier

“I tried to do that very difficult thing, imagine old people young again and invested with the graces of youth. But”

— Charles Dickens

“Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.”

— Thomas Sowell

“One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“When you're young you can't work out the age of an adult - they're just quite old, old, or very old.”

— Michael Morpurgo

“I am sure you have come across older people who behave like children. They want everything, whine for attention, bitch about the smallest things…

— Saidi Mdala

“Youth is a kind of madness. The wisest young men are they who follow the good example of the old, and the most foolish…

— John Wortabet

“A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“the most weird things about elders, they learned it on a quiet younger age & don't want us to.”

— Srinivas Shenoy

“Our age is obviously the Nonsense Age; the wiser sort of nonsense being provided for the children and the sillier sort of nonsense for…

— G.K. Chesterton

“grew older with some trouble face it and then you become wiser.”

— Rahne Putri