Quotes About Elderly

If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.

You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

114 isn't as old as it used to be they say its the new 104.

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

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 ashamed of. If elder abuse happened to me, it can happen to anyone. I want you to know that you deserve better.

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 quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.

I am not in love with you," she said. "It is an infatuation. I have heard of such derangements happening to elderly spinsters.

Some free advice for you: Never fight an old man. They've been there, done that, written the book, made and starred in the movie, designed the T-shirt, and they've got no ego at all about how the fight gets won. And never fight family. They know you too well.

In your 50's, time becomes precious and must not be wasted, every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap.

There are numerous advantages in being fifty, ask any eighty year old.

Happy Birthday to the youngest 80 year old Ive ever met!

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

The mouth of an old man may smell but the advice coming form it is sweet.

You may make fun of those who are under 6 and over 70 if you will, because they will get neither angry nor sad. Moreover, they will not even hurt you by their words.

There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire whether the way is smooth and easy or rugged and difficult. Is life harder toward the end, or what report do you give it?

Some doctors who specialize in the care of geriatric patients have told me that there are rare occasions when they have heard a very old, sick, and frail person announce, "I'm going to die today." And the individual did. But it doesn't happen often.

Respectability had its uses. I wondered idly how many spymasters had thought of using elderly ladies? You didn't hear about old women as spies—but then again, that might merely indicate how good they were at it.

She was a very old lady indeed, or at least she looked it. She leaned on a hawthorn stick, enveloped in garments she must have

The elderly in Britain aren't really given enough respect.

Mr Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking people to stay with him