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Medicines are only fit for old people. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. -- Henry David Thoreau
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I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories. -- George Carlin
Ever since I was quite young, I was in St. John's Ambulance or the Red Cross; latterly, I've been involved in voluntary work with the mentally handicapped and Abbeyfield Old People's Homes. -- Nicholas Winton
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
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. -- Pearl S. Buck
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. -- George Santayana
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. -- Coco Chanel
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. -- Louis Kronenberger
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. -- Jonathan Swift
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. -- Henry David Thoreau
There's a growing trend of older Americans who are using marijuana in their retirement. That makes sense because old people are always talking about their joints. -- Jimmy Fallon
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. -- George Sand
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character. -- Clarence Day
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. -- Tom Stoppard
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. -- Jean Paul
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life. -- Elisabeth Elliot
The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers. -- Margaret Mead
Don't hustle old people. -- John Burns
I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself. -- Len Goodman
You know you must be doing something right if old people like you. -- Dave Chappelle
Racism been over. It's the old people that keep on holding on to it. -- ASAP Ferg
Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga. -- David Ogilvy
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well. -- Jonathan Carroll
I hate old people, I hate children. I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool. -- Joan Rivers
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see. -- Chinua Achebe
I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. -- Chinua Achebe
I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again! -- Mercedes McCambridge
When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world. -- Edmund White
The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history. -- Myles Munroe
It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal. -- Amy Grant
Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.' -- Viggo Mortensen
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do. -- Maya Angelou
I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I've heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show. -- Steve Burns
When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever. -- Helen Mirren
I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can. -- Harrison Ford
Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded. -- Will Self
You either evolve or you don't. I don't like old people on a rock n' roll stage. I think they look pathetic, me included. And the fact that I represent an era means I can't just go out there and do all new stuff. They would all say, 'Sing 'White Rabbit,' and I'd say no? That's rude. -- Grace Slick
Old age spiritualizes people naturally -- Ram Dass
Be nice to old people. -- Jaime Murray
Eating is sex for old people. -- Jonathan Carroll
Nostalgia is heroin for old people. -- Dara O Briain
Many people consider me an old friend. -- Shirley Temple
Beautiful old people are works of art. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Few people know how to be old. -- Maggie Kuhn
The best contraceptive for old people is nudity. -- Phyllis Diller
I have a wonderful respect for old people. -- Craig Kilborn
Old maids do not mind giving people trouble. -- Thomas Nelson Page
Slot machines are like crack for old people. -- Keenen Ivory Wayans
Old people are often impatient, but for what? -- Jonathan Carroll
People are still emulating the old fashioned criminal. -- Shia LaBeouf
History is just new people making old mistakes. -- Sigmund Freud
Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young. -- Ray Bradbury
Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win. -- Jacob M. Appel
I like old people when they have aged well. -- M. F. K. Fisher
Why do old people drive with their mouths open? -- Dana Gould
When the old men fight, the young people die. -- Anne Fortier
One spares old people just as one spares children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That's great. I'm 100 years old and people are still interested. -- Grant Fuhr
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People have grown fond of me, like some old building. -- Katharine Hepburn
I've been doing old-people things since I was a child. -- Martha Plimpton
Old people, with other old people, are not so old. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Most people don't see Hamlet as an old bald guy. -- Joss Whedon
People don't die of old age, they die of neglect. -- Jack LaLanne
All new news is old news happening to new people -- Malcolm Muggeridge
I started out as a 16 year old registering people to vote. -- DeForest Soaries
We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80. -- Jack Klugman
I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh. -- Allan Carr
I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh. -- Allan Carr
You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between. -- Rainbow Rowell
Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people. -- Wendy Hiller
I think old people should just be old and go away. -- Nicola Formichetti
People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. -- Milton A. Lee
nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love ... -- Nancy Mitford
People who do not accept the new, grow old very quickly. -- Auguste Escoffier
I'm too old to be governed by fear of dumb people. -- Sam Waterston
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. -- Bill Walton
Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one. -- Judith Martin
Old people, don't watch it because you might die just watching it. -- Jaromir Jagr
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. -- Charles H. Brower
People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new. -- Chamillionaire
I don t wanna see old people on a rock & roll stage. -- Grace Slick
You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first. -- Mark Twain
Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do -- Wilfred Owen
The only people who grow old were born old to begin with. -- Robert E. Sherwood
Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun. -- Josephine Baker
Burdening people with debt is an old deal not a new deal. -- Henry Ford
Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old. -- Douglas Rushkoff
A lot of people call Dizzy old fashioned but so is the bible. -- Mickey Roker
The old people must start talking and the young people must start listening. -- Thomas Banyacya
I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people. -- Manolo Blahnik
People are never too young or too old to look for human connection. -- John Turturro
You can't change old people. Unlike middle-aged people, they do what they want. -- Kathy Acker
If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people. -- Jim Eason
I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't. -- Bonnie Tyler
I' tired of old people being labeled as worthless,useless,toothless and sexless -- Claude Pepper
My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people. -- Charles Bukowski
Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it. -- David Gemmell
Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change. -- Therese Anne Fowler
I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included. -- Grace Slick
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Age-appropriate makeup? Who are you people? What makeup is age-appropriate for a seven-year-old? -- Kami Garcia
That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable. -- Wallace Stegner
The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate. -- Tony Benn
Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old. -- Luis Alberto Urrea
Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them. -- Hippocrates
Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing. -- Dave Davies
You know you are getting old when people tell you how good you look. -- Alan King
When I think of Cool Britannia I think of old people dying of hypothermia. -- Tony Benn
I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things. -- Bindi Irwin
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. -- Russell Baker
Some people still see me as a kid, but I'm a 23-year-old woman now. -- Amanda Bynes

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