Elderly Quotes

274 Elderly quotes by 232 unique authors

We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by… — Barbra Streisand
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have… — Judith Viorst
I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's… — Jacki Weaver
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. — Edith Wharton
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad… — Elwyn Brooks White
The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly. — Juan Williams
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.' — William Butler Yeats
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for… — William Butler Yeats
There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this… — Woody Allen
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought… — Michel de Montaigne
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most… — Virginia Woolf
Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests… — J. G. Ballard
Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from… — Virginia Woolf
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers… — W. Somerset Maugham
The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them… — Ayn Rand
I fell into a sound sleep and dreamed that I was at a banquet back in Gion, talking with an elderly man who was explaining… — Arthur Golden
Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and… — Anne Sexton
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing… — Aristotle
Svengal lay groaning on the turf. His thighs were sheer agony. His buttocks ached. His calf muscles were on fire. Now, afterhe had tumbled off… — John Flanagan
It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of… — Terry Pratchett
At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John to step behind… — David Wong
the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. — Andy Rooney
Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that he speak to… — Judith McNaught
I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to… — Vincent Price
...my little blurb wasn't going to win me any speaker-of-the-year awards, but at least I hadn't tripped and fallen off the stage, crushing and killing… — Jordan Sonnenblick

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