Famous Quotes - Tags - Old People

  • ... a friend told me that she had read of a woman who had knitted a wash rag for President... More
  • ...we avoid hospitals because ... they’ll kill you there. They overtreat you. And when they see... More
  • All is changed. All looks strange to me and gives me a feeling which I would rather get away... More
  • All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing... More
  • As if being eighty-five or ninety
    and terrified and talked down to loudly
    and pushed... More
  • By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young. More
  • Everyone waiting here was once in love. More
  • I find in myself to-day the same spring of desire to learn all that I can, to read and study that... More
  • I have formed a strong theory that there is no such thing as “turning into” a Nasty Old Man... More
  • I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest... More
  • If you rest, you rust. More
  • It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of... More
  • I’d like to live another hundred years yet—and I don’t know but I will, too. My teeth are... More
  • Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical... More
  • Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is... More
  • Old age is the verdict of life. More
  • People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow... More
  • People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach “retirement” age seem... More
  • Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old... More
  • The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on... More
  • [On being asked “what sort of future she anticipates having”:] A very short one. More

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