Quotes About Elderly

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

One time I saw an old man in a hurry and I thought, 'That makes sense.'

Go home, old woman, I'm tired and you're annoying me.

To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear.

The Cleveland syndicate, perhaps the most powerful of the strictly gambling operations in the United States, was represented by a sensitive-looking elderly man with gaunt features and snow-white hair. He was known, of course not to his face, as "the Jew" because he had surrounded himself with Jewish assistants rather than Sicilians. It was even rumored that he would have named a Jew as his Consigliere if he had dared.

Rule number six: Everybody should have a car Rule number seven: All maids should eat at the table with the others Rule number eight: No old person should have to suffer Grandmother: In that case, I'll be your first disciple. Persepolis: Really? Grandmother: But tell me how you'll arrange for old people not to suffer? Persepolis: It will simply be forbidden.

For the next hour or two, keeping up with Alessandro would be a task that would set the boy to breathing hard and make him think that something might be wrong with his heart, because he found it difficult to stay even with an old man who carried a cane and whose every step was a cross between an uncontrolled pivot and a barely arrested fall.

Oh, that that old man in Westmoreland would die and be gathered to his fathers, now that he was full of years and ripe for the sickle! But there was no sign of death about the old man.

CHAPTER LVIII THE TWO OLD LADIES

He ain't got nothing to do," said the housemaid to the cook, "and as for reading, they say that some of the young ones can read all day sometimes, and all night too; but, bless you, when you're nigh eighty, reading don't go for much." The housemaid was right as to Mr. Harding's reading. He was not one who had read so much in his earlier days as to enable him to make reading go far with him now that he was near eighty

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 power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

The extraordinary meeting of the Space Advisory Council was brief and stormy. Even by the twenty-second century, no way had yet been discovered of keeping elderly and conservative scientists from occupying crucial administrative positions. Indeed, it was doubted if the problem ever would be solved.

I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.

La señora Palfrey durmió plácidamente y toda la noche, con los labios ligeramente estirados, como si estuviese a punto de sonreír.

Un niño pequeño aprende algo nuevo cada día; un anciona olvida algo cada día. Los nombres desaparecen, las fechas ya no significan nada, las secuencias se tornan confusas y las caras borrosas. La primera infancia y la vejez son épocas agotadoras

she had never thought of the young as needing religion, because they always had so much else. For the elderly, especially for the elderly with husbands who were even more elderly but refused to admit it, she considered faith indispensable.

The old man's lips were drawn in puckers, like a curtain, to either corner of his mouth.

Try giving a full body wax to an overweight eighty-five-year-old man with more wrinkles than a shar-pei. Now that's a workout.

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age

But now respectable elderly women do not need to excuse themselves for buying brandy or even gin, though it is quite likely that some still do and perhaps one may hope that they always will.

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 disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

We all understand that we are living longer, and we are more likely to spend more years as frail, elderly people who can't work. We also recognize that the wonderful advances in medicine also come with wonderful price tags. Those are things you can't budget around.