Quotes of: Old-people Keyword

You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Traditional

Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and ...

Robert A. Heinlein

Flirt with the old ladies and you’ll be fine,” I muttered, shoving my stuff into the cubby. He hung his green hoodie on the hooks right beside me. “Is that how you get by?” “Doesn’t work on the old ladies for me, but the old men on the ot...

By the Sea

Detective Loki: Alex Jones, unfortunately has the I.Q. of a 10 year-old. There's no way someone with the I.Q. of a 10 year-old could abduct 2 girls in broad daylight and then... somehow dissppear. Keller Dover: Well, maybe he wasn't on his own. How c...

Prisoners

Jason hated being an old man.

The Blood of Olympus

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Andre Maurois

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

Bernard Baruch

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Gene Fowler

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

Harrison Ford

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

Huey Lewis

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

John Adams

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

Jim Bishop

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Lactantius

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Madame de Stael

You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Samuel Ullman

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.

Stella Young

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Walter Savage Landor

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

W. Somerset Maugham

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

W. Somerset Maugham