Older Quotes
Appreciate youthfulness and empathize with elderly people.
The young man pities his elders, fearing the day he, too, will join their ranks. The elderly man pities the younger generation, well-knowing the trials and tribulations that lie ahead of them.
The phrase ‘Boys will be boys, ’ reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome.
Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.
My first interview was with eighty-eight-year-old folk artist Marcia Muth… ‘Your life does change as you get older, ’ she told me. ‘You get into what’s important and what’s not’.
Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.
...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.
The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their own youthful detriment!
The dream is possible at any age. Go live your dream.
Do not speak harshly to a grown-up man. He is old enough to be your father.
There’s plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well.
As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't know how to express them, but rather it didn't know what to express.
I assumed that looking back reminded older guys of what they had shot at and missed, the what-ifs, the good memories, the bad, the people left behind, the people who moved on.
I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith.
When you get to a certain age you find that other people’s opinions don’t really matter anymore, and you get kind of uncomfortable with your place in modern life.
Young people must appreciate the beauty of old age. The old people were once young.
The older I get the more I enjoy my childhood…! ~James A. Murphy
The way you’re smiling a little makes me think maybe you wouldn’t mind an older man.
The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.
There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable.
Age has taught me that what other people think of me is none of my business.
The more older we get, less question we ask. We have lost contacts, we have lost and the curiosity of the things.
Older doesn't always mean wiser. It just means that you've had more time to do the same things over and over again- right, wrong, and different.
Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)
A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356)
The worst thing about getting older is you discover that most of the performers in the shows you used to watch are now younger than you. Suddenly, everything become less believable.
The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.
Older guys have too much emotional baggage. They’ve already lived their lives.
No one’s life ever goes as they planned. That truth alone should bring a sense of relief to everyone.
Whenever my mum gets depressed about her age, she goes to Paris.
As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?
The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
As I'm getting older, I'm really learning unconditional love and loyalty are extremely important.
You should welcome getting older in golf. With greater knowledge of your swing, you, too, can keep improving.
It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.
It's funny how getting older - or being overlooked and underrated for more than two decades - can make you change your ambitions.
I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.
As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.