Quotes of: Old-people Keyword

Richard Brown: Like that morning, when you walked out of that old house and you were, you were eighteen, and maybe I was nineteen. I was nineteen years old, and I'd never seen anything so beautiful. You, coming out of a glass door in your early morni...

The Hours

[Anton has just shot the Man who hires Wells in the throat, and is standing over his body] [to Nervous Accountant] Anton Chigurh: Who are you? Nervous Accountant: Me? Anton Chigurh: Yes. Nervous Accountant: Nobody... accounting. Anton Chigurh: He gav...

No Country for Old Men

[last lines] 40-Year-Old Mattie: I had the body removed to our plot and I have visited it over the years. No doubt people talk about that. They say, "Well, she hardly knew the man. Isn't she a cranky old maid?" It is true, I have not married. I never...

True Grit

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Amos Bronson Alcott

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Bernard Baruch

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

Bill Bryson

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

Dorothy Dix

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The wonderful thing about modern medicine is that so many of these complaints that used to signify old age and decline can be coped with.

Ian Mckellen

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Joseph Addison

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.

Johnny Winter

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

Marguerite Young

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

Pope Paul VI

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Sophocles

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Sophocles

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

Louis Nizer

Tis the old wind in the old anger, But then it threshed another wood.

A Shropshire Lad

It's a razor's edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman.

Peter O'Toole