Quotessence
Home / Topics / Elderly Quotes

Elderly Quotes

Browse 410 quotes about Elderly.

Related topics

PeopleChildrenIfsMenYoungCareKnowsPersonsAgeYearsThinkingFirstsNeedsWantWayYouthHomeLittlesParentWellsMaySocialAgingKidsOld AgeSaidSecuritySocial SecurityDiesEldersFeelsLastsMiddleWritingCoupleEyeGentlemanGivingHas BeensHelpingLong

Elderly Quotes

“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!”

KnowsShouldMeanSometimesStatesCoursesImpossibleCollegeDisciplineCostScientistMathematicsMeetingsDefinitionsPhysicsBoardsThirtyGloriousFiftyExceptionFortyDecayDistinguishedElderlyLaboratoryResearchersAdjectivesSenileBoard Meetings
Author:Arthur C. Clarke
Create image

“We really can't boil a man's life down to seasonal divisions of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Seasons cycle perennially, and we enjoy them because they recur. We should understand a man's life this way too. An elderly person may yet see new springs and summers. On the other hand, some young people never escape winter. Others become ensnared by their own private autumns.”

PeopleMenWayShouldMayPersonsHandsYoungEnjoySummerSpringSeasonsWinterAutumnCyclesDivisionElderlyWinter SeasonSpring SummerAutumn And Winter
Author:Hideo Kojima
Create image

“All Kings, and all their favorites, All glory of honors, beauties, wits, The sun itself, which makes times, as they pass, Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hash, nor yesterday, Running, it never runs from us away, But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.”

YearsFirstsRunningLastsSunSawsKingsTomorrowHonorGloryDrawsDestructionWitYesterdayDecayOur LoveEverlastingEldersElderlyMaking TimeHash
Book:Selected poems
Create image

“I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full.”

PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFirstsWellsLooksChildrenLongI CanSelfEnoughAbleSidesCan DoMy OwnHusbandLong TimeSelfishLike MeLong Time AgoElderlyWisestBeing Selfish
Author:Maya Angelou
Create image

“Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.”

IfsMindMatterAgeFunnyAgingOld AgeBirthdayOld PeopleGetting OldGetting OlderYoung AgeElderlyGrowing OldAgeingMy BirthdayGrowing OlderFunny AgingBirthdays And AgingFunny Old Age BirthdayHappy BirthdayYouth And Old AgeAge And YouthAging GracefullyInspirational BirthdayFunny AgeStaying YoungAge Of 40Wise BirthdayFunny BirthdayInspirational AgeOld BirthdayQuotations Birthday Happy BirthdayMilestone BirthdayFunny Happy BirthdayAge And WisdomLost YouthMind And MatterWitty BirthdayHumorous BirthdayFunny Birthday CardFunny Old BirthdayOld Age HumorBest BirthdayFunny Birthday WishesBirthday HumorGrowing Old GracefullyAge WisdomBirthday Wishes FunnyYouth FunnyBirthday GreetingsHilarious Happy BirthdayWise AgeAge Life
Author:Jack Benny
Create image

“You've read newspaper stories about elderly widows who die and leave their entire estates to their pet cats, right? Well, your cat reads those stories too, and has spent most of its skulking, devious little life dreaming about inheriting all your money.”

WellsLittlesStoriesDreamHumorFunnyDiesCatNewspapersPetEstatesElderlyWidowsDeviousPets Cats
Book:Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home
Create image

“For us, warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who can not provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity.”

ThinkingChildrenCareHumanityFightingSacrificeTasksTake CareWarriorCan NotElderlyAnother LifeDefenselessFuture Of Humanity
Author:Sitting Bull
Create image

“I had come to realize the importance of the Nation, and of shared, communal, social responsibility, to be held as equally important as individual concerns. The elderly, the widowed, newly married couples, the poor, the unemployed, disbanded soldiers and children, who would be required to attend school, must be provided for from state funds. And all this support is not the nature of charity, but of a right.”

ChildrenImportantStatesWould BeSchoolIndividualNationsSocialRealizingPoorResponsibilitySupportCoupleMarriedConcernImportanceCharitySoldierFundSocial ResponsibilityElderlyUnemployedMarried CouplesWidowedDisbanded
Author:Thomas Paine
Create image

“Today children are disposed of because there is no food or because they are killed before being born – children are discarded. The elderly are disposed of, well, because they are useless, they do not produce, neither children nor the elderly produce; then, with more or less sophisticated systems they are slowly abandoned and now, as in this crisis it is necessary to recover some equilibrium, we are witnessing a third very painful discarding –the discarding of young people. Millions of young people… are discarded from work, are unemployed.”

PeopleWellsChildrenTodayYoungBornMillionsProduceThirdsCrisisPainfulUselessAbandonedSophisticatedElderlyEquilibriumUnemployedDiscarded
Author:Pope Francis
Create image

“The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: "My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest.”

YearsLongSoulBlackPoorWeekFeetMovementWalkingUnderstoodEssenceMajorityTiredMy SoulBusElderlyBlack HistoryBoycottMontgomery
Book:A Martin Luther King Treasury
Create image

“Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of benevolence, don't expect for me to vote for prescription drugs for the elderly, handouts to farmers and food stamps for the poor. Instead, I'll fight these and other unconstitutional congressional expenditures”? I'll tell you how many votes he'll get: It will be Williams' vote, and that's it.”

FightingPoorObjectsDrugProtectOfficeAuthorityVoteConstitutionCongressSpendingFarmersStampsElderlyBenevolencePrescriptionsExpendituresPrescription DrugsUnconstitutionalFood StampsHandouts
Author:Walter E. Williams
Create image