Quotes of: Old-people Keyword

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind.

Henri Poincare

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.

Elias Canetti

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 that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. And you are not...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind. Another question: why do some people remain open and elastic into extreme old age, whereas others become rigid and unproductive before t...

Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

Fall of Kings

I think repeating yourself is a sign of old age, telling the same joke again and again. Especially if they're jokes that don't make people laugh.

Simon Le Bon

If someone says to you, 'Go to an old-folks' home,' that's kind of ridiculous, because a lot of old people are doing terrific things for society.

Myron Scholes

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

Lyle Lovett

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

Jeff Lynne

If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.

Chris Hardwick

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the wor...

Nancy Friday

The Law of God was never a ladder for unsaved people to climb up to heaven. It was always a pattern of life for God’s people who had been saved from judgment by the blood of the Lamb.

Unlocking the Bible Story: Old Testament 2

Why do old people drive slow? They have the least amount of time left on earth, so you’d think they’d drive the fastest, to make the best use of what little time they have.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

Few people know how to be old.

Maggie Kuhn

Old Woman: [first lines - dark street] You can't sleep here. Jean Valjean: Get away from me. Old Woman: Why don't you go to an inn? Jean Valjean: Why do you think? Old Woman: Can't you knock on doors and ask people? Jean Valjean: I asked. I ask every...

Les Misérables

People seem to overlook an old man losing his mind if he occasionally made light of it.

Cinder

It doesn't matter how old people are. It matters if they love each other and have fun with each other. It has nothing to do with age. To get old is a mental disease. Everything is in the head.

Nina Hagen

My house seems remarkably full of people," he observed. "Is it possible we were expected.

These Old Shades

I'm losing friendships over forgetting to get back to people. But you can't keep up with everything. I've got a 13-year-old, a nine-year-old and a baby.

Reese Witherspoon

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

Jack Kingston

In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.

Rush Limbaugh