Elderly Quotes

274 Elderly quotes by 232 unique authors

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They… — Jay Leno
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite… — Don Marquis
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. — W. Somerset Maugham
Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time… — Theresa May
I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among… — Jon Meacham
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. — Golda Meir
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were… — Golda Meir
I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the… — Unknown Author
Everybody gets sick; everybody has had a problem with insurance or the prescription drugs they're supposed to be taking or an elderly parent who needs… — Michael Moore
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why… — Lewis Mumford
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. — Hector Hugh Munro
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing. — Bill Nighy
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There… — Camille Paglia
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? — Satchel Paige
In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long. — Pope Paul VI
I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As… — Terry Pratchett
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens. — Elvis Presley
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. — Bertrand Russell
And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly. — Paul Ryan
Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether… — Jonathan Sacks
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. — George Bernard Shaw
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. — Beverly Sills
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s. — Arthur Smith
It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky… — Maggie Smith
I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. — Maggie Smith

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