Bill Bryson Quotes

I think old people should just be old and go away.

Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

These guys are so old they're eligible for meals on wheels.

Sure, I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

I don't want to be the oldest anything in America. Sorry about that.

Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.

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, with other old people, are not so old.

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

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

People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.

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.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

Elderly people, I have found, when they're being honest, are also scumbags, and enjoy a little prurient humour as well.

I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion.

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.