Quotes About Elderly

An elderly man called Keith Mislaid his set of false teeth— They'd been laid on a chair, He'd forgot they were there, Sat down, and was bitten beneath. Irish limerick

In the pairs of mothers and their adult children that I have seen, mothers who cared for their children out of obligation are then cared for in their elderly years by their adult children out of a similar obligation.

The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit.

She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe.

Mr. Sillerton Jackson había devuelto los anteojos a Lawrence Lefferts. Todos los miembros del grupo se volvieron instintivamente a él, esperando escuchar lo que el anciano diría, pues Mr. Jackson era toda una autoridad en familias, así como Lawrence Lefferts lo era en formalidades.

But he was beginning to grow old. He slept more than had been his wont, and bit by bit his long daily runs were shortening. As with some fastidious elderly bachelor or spinster, the approach of age made Lad fussily averse to any disturbing change in the routine of his placid daily life. Strangers and guests were increasingly unwelcome to him.

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Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.

The elderly are all someone's flesh and blood and we cannot just shut them in a cupboard and hand over the responsibility for taking care of them to the state.

Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.

As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.

Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.

House dresses are still available; I did my research. The only problem procuring them is that you'll need to order from the kind of website where the pitch for their stylishness can be summed up by the following: "Zip-Front Housecoats for Elderly People - Faded Flowers Pattern." It's as if the editor of Vogue penned that evocative line herself.

And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.

For example, the bulk of federal Medicare insurance for the elderly is spent keeping people alive in their last six months, trying to prevent what cannot be prevented. That many recipients of this intervention do not judge the quality of their life in those last months to be satisfactory is a dilemma for which we have no solution.

Maybe, as the old lady had suggested, it was all that catechism, its rote insistence on subordinating one's will to God's, so many of these lessons administered by the now senile priest who was seated a few yards away and giving him the evil eye. What in the world could these old goats have been discussing, Miles wondered.

old people have to go to children's or most often to rest homes where they are shunted into wheelchairs and made as fast as possible into zombies cause it's easier to handle a zombie, if you have to handle anything, than a human.

In Paris, I felt connected to history in a way I did not in America. Elderly men I passed in the Latin Quarter, with empty sleeves pinned to the shoulder of their jackets, reminded me of the not-so-distant war.

And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.

Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

The infirmity of his age.

A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in, the wit is out.

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 place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.