Elderly quotes

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◆ Respect old people: they graduated highschool without Google or Wikipedia!

- 100

◆ Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.

- Lillian Carter99

◆ When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

- Eugene O'Neill99

◆ Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

- Elvis Presley99

◆ The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

- H H Munro99

◆ When you get real old, honey, you realizre there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying: Only little children and old folks tell the truth.

- Sarah Louise Delany99

◆ The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

- Will Durant99

◆ Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

- St JeromeSt Jerome99

◆ A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

- Abraham J Heschel99

◆ What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories

- William Somerset Maugham99

◆ Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.

- Caryn Leschen99

◆ To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

- Charles-Victor De Bonstettin99

◆ When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old

- Clint Eastwood99

◆ Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.

- Dale E Turner99

◆ At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

- Edmund Wilson99