Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!

But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me,…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I grow old learning something new everyday.

— Solon

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of…

— Herman Melville

“Malnutrition is a plague in the elderly.”

— Steven Magee

A long time ago, in a town with which I used to be familiarly acquainted, there dwelt an elderly person of grim aspect, known…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“We must learn as long as we live.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by…

— John Donne

“You will not apply for membership, but the tribe of the elderly will claim you. Your present will not keep pace with the world’s.…

— David Mitchell

When facing a child, I become a child. When facing an elderly person, or a husband, or a wife, in my heart, I too…

— Masahisa Goi

“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…

— Lynda I Fisher

At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John to step…

— David Wong

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The investment in our mining industry has been very positive for Australia but we need to be doing more if we want, as I…

— Gina Rinehart

The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.

— John Cusack

Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of…

— Walter E. Williams