Top 427 Elderly Quotes & Sayings

My mother, Carmen, cleaned houses and took care of elderly people.

Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.

It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.

I actually had the urge to elbow an elderly lady today.

the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.

One of the interesting things I discovered, talking about your grandmother, is I did a search of my uses of the word "elderly" in my copy over the years, and you will not be surprised to hear that the older I got the less often I used the word elderly in print.

So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly ugly daughter.

I love talking with elderly people.

I'm an elderly Jewish lesbian trapped in a 33 year old nerd's body.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

Music is nothing but a door opener to meet families and their children and the elderly.

The elderly are useless eaters.

IoT could also mean seamless critical and elderly care.

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.

The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

I make sure I do only audience-friendly films that can be watched with children and the elderly crowd.

To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years.

Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!

What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

I want to learn something from my atheistic brothers and sisters, even though I'm a Christian. I want to learn something from my right-wing brothers and sisters, even though I'm a progressive. I want to learn something from the elderly, even though I'm middle-aged or tilting toward the elderly. I want to learn especially something from the youth. That's why I spend a lot of time in hip-hop studios.

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!

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.

No elderly person should be like an “exile” in our families. The elderly are a treasure for our society.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes.

As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

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

I am no more young. So there is no harm in playing an elderly role.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.

In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.

I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover.

People who watch morning television are elderly, infirm or emotionally immature.

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.

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

Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

It's a dreadful thing to be strapped for cash when you are elderly. It's awful when you're young, too, but you always have hope.

When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion - the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.

When facing a child, I become a child. When facing an elderly person, or a husband, or a wife, in my heart, I too am an elderly person, husband, or a wife. While I am talking with a person, in my heart, nothing exists except that person.

If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something can be done he is almost certainly right. If an elderly respected expert in a given field tells you that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

There are a lot of elderly people in Flint who are homebound and can't get the supplies they need.

There are many rules for the elderly in the Highway Code. I have one too, and here it is: get a bloody move on.

Treat the elderly as a nonrenewable resource; they care!

"What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home."

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.

One of the most important jobs of the youth is to make the elderly happy.

Thugs who brutalize elderly people should be punished severely.

A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future.

Most elderly are retirees with relatively low incomes. But some may possess assets, and they will be classified as poor. As such, the elderly poverty rate could be overstated.

Where the elderly are not honored, there is no future for the young.

I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.

The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.

Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.