Old People Quotes

[Elzee]

Just sharing a few profound 'old people' quotes that I found on the internet:


“You ought never to "sass" old people- unless they "sass" you first”

Mark Twain


“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.”

Doris Lessing


“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art”

Eleanor Roosevelt


“Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.”

Mohandas Gandhi

 

[SifuPhil]

Excellent!

A few I found -

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. "
~ Victor Hugo
(this is especially relevent to me, given my new entry into old age )

"Old age is no place for sissies."
~ Bette Davis

"A man's only as old as the woman he feels."
~ Groucho Marx

"Amidst all the wonders recorded in holy writ no instance can be
produced where a young woman from real inclination has preferred an old man."
~ George Washington

"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."
~ Mickey Mantle

 

[TWHRider]

I have worn out those by Bette Davis and Mickey Mantle, except I have slightly modified Bette's to say:

"This gettin' old business really isn't a sport for sissies and it's s**t for the birds too" :triumphant:

 

[SifuPhil]

I have worn out those by Bette Davis and Mickey Mantle, except I have slightly modified Bette's to say:

"This gettin' old business really isn't a sport for sissies and it's s**t for the birds too" :triumphant:

I think Bette would have been proud of you!

I don't know much about her real life, but I'd like to believe that she was as classy - and sassy - as she was on the big screen. I have mega-respect for her because she wasn't exactly a raving beauty - she made it on acting talent alone. And I'll always remember her in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane - she was fantastic in that!

 

[TWHRider]

^^^Ditto

Boy do I remember "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane". After watching, it took me several nights before I could sleep clear thru - lol lol lol

 

[Ozarkgal]

Old age comes on suddenly, not gradually as is thought...Emily Dickinson

Ain't it the truth..one day you're young and the next day you're wondering what the he double l
happened...who is this person in the mirror?

 

[Ozarkgal]

I don't know much about her real life, but I'd like to believe that she was as classy - and sassy - as she was on the big screen.

Bette Davis was a wonderful actress...I've seen all her movies. Recently, I happened to catch an appearance by her on the old Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, on youtube. It was fun to watch as she was one that would tell it like it is.

 

[R. Zimm]

An older lady I work with (who actually retired and got bored so both her and her husband work again) says "If you don't keep moving they throw dirt on you!"

 

[SeaBreeze]

"Don't regret getting old, some people aren't granted that privilege" ~ author unknown

 

[That Guy]

I'm sure more than one old guy said this way back when. I love it and repeat it often: "Get a horse!"

 

[That Guy]

Sometimes, just for no particular reason, I like to shout, "Hey, you kids! Get off my lawn!"

 

[SifuPhil]

Sometimes, just for no particular reason, I like to shout, "Hey, you kids! Get off my lawn!"

Tourette's Syndrome is a heart-breaking affliction.

... especially as I think you said you don't even HAVE a lawn.

 

[That Guy]

... especially as I think you said you don't even HAVE a lawn.

Speaking of which: The Straight Story is a great flick about the true adventures of an old guy (our crowd) who rides his lawn mower across country. Very touching!

 

[Pappy]

My uncle would say, "A farting horse never tires. A farting man is the man to hire." Uncle was a little strange.....

 

[JustBonee]

Old men are fond of giving advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.
Pierre Auguste Renoir

I'm so old they've cancelled my blood type.
Bob Hope

He's so old that when he orders a three-minute egg, they ask for the money up front.
Milton Berle

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
Bob Hope

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
Bill Cosby

When you become senile, you won't know it.
Bill Cosby

As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
Robert Quillen

I've only got one wrinkle and I'm sitting on it.
Jeanne Calment

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
H.H. Munro (Saki)

 

[TICA]

"Old Joe didn't have a pot to p*ss in or a window to throw it out of"

My Grandmother! God I do miss her....

 

[JustBonee]

Age is a question of mind over matter ... If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Leroy "Satchel" Paige