More quotations tagged with “old age”
I used to say, watching two elderly women crossing the street in flowered hats, holding each other's arms, "Look at those cute old ladies." I didn't mind the stereotypes that pepper movies and television shows. Now old people are no longer cute or mean or silly or wise to me. They are people, in all their broken fullness. Despite the glitches in faculties and functioning, anyone who's lived that long has learned something the rest of us don't know.
—Tarn Wilson
Even very recently, the elders could say [to the youths]: "You know, I have been young and you never have been old." But today's young people can reply: "You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be."… This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.
—Margaret Mead
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
—Maurice Chevalier
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
—Saki
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
—George Burns