Ama Ata Aidoo Quotes

Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

The old are in a second childhood.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

The old folk, time's doting chronicles.

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.

it sucks to get old...but there's always beer

I worry about my nan. If she's alone and falls, does she make a noise? I'm joking, she's dead.

Old age is life's parody.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

Sunday is Senior Citizens' Day. And if you want to become a senior citizen, just call the Padre ticket office.

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.