Elderly Quotes
274 quotes by 238 authors
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.
— Martha Beck
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when…
— Joseph Addison
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
— Aeschylus
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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one…
— Alan Bleasdale
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
— Lord Byron
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After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government…
— Tony Campolo
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No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
— John Cassavetes
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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
— Bill Gates
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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is…
— Maya Angelou
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The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.
— John Cusack
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To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be…
— Mickey Rooney
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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
— William Manchester
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There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of…
— David Attenborough
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We must appreciate the dignity of life in all its seasons, even the path of the elderly in the twilight of their years, to work…
— George W. Bush
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Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance…
— George Santayana
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The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always…
— Leon Edel
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The English language has about 450,000 commonly used words, but more may be needed. What to you call someone who has lost a sibling or…
— Jeffrey Zaslow
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How about no income tax at all on people over 65? People would continue working, remain healthier, not be an economic and social drain on…
— John Templeton
Who Wrote These Elderly Quotes
238 authors contributed a total of 274 Elderly Quotes, led by these top contributors: