Elderly Quotes - Page 2

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.

When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

The elderly are useless eaters.

Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. I think of Cocoon and Driving Miss Daisy. But they always seem to be fairly successful, so it's a bit baffling as to why everybody has to be treated as if they were five-years-old.

A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and hope.

It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.

If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

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 elderly ladies.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Perhaps the adjective 'elderly' requires definition. In physics, mathematics, and astronautics it means over thirty; in the other disciplines, senile decay is sometimes postponed to the forties. There are, of course, glorious exceptions; but as every researcher just out of college knows, scientists of over fifty are good for nothing but board meetings, and should at all costs be kept out of the laboratory!

A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise.

Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

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 they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse.

Theres no such thing as ageing gracefully. I dont meet people who want to get Alzheimers disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.

In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief in an omnipotent, omniscient, and compassionate God. But what was God doing while Katrina laid waste to their city? Surely He heard the prayers of those elderly men and women who fled the rising waters for the safety of their attics, only to be slowly drowned there.

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.

A commonplace of political rhetoric has it that the quality of a civilization may be measured by how it cares for its elderly. Just as surely, the future of a society may be forecast by how it cares for its young.

I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.

Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.