Elderly Quotes - Page 2

• Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Time, Long

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

  George William Curtis

  Birthday, Friends, Years

  George William Curtis (1856). “Prue and I”, p.111

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• An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Hands, Soul

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 9 (1928)

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fashion, Thinking, Age

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• By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Witty, Years

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• Every child who, rather than being born, is condemned unjustly to being aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ, bears the face of the Lord, who even before he was born, and then just after birth, experienced the world’s rejection. And every elderly person…even if he is ill or at the end of his days, bears the face of Christ. They cannot be discarded, as the ‘culture of waste’ suggests!

  Pope Francis

  Inspiring, Christian, Wise

  Pope Francis (2017). “Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith”, p.77, Loyola Press

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• An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Men, Byzantium

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 9 (1928)

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• The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.

  Jane Addams

  Rebel, Tasks, Youth

  Jane Addams (1930). “The second twenty years at Hull-House, September 1909 to September 1929, with a record of a growing world consciousness”

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• Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?

  Pope Francis

  Order, Two, Economic Inequality

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

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• One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

  Jim Rohn

  Relationship, Sympathy, Kindness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 10, 2017

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• Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

  Lewis Mumford

  Life, Littles, Forgotten

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• Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap.

  Cloris Leachman

  Home, Kids, Long

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• I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

  Ade Edmondson

  Men, Laughing So Hard, Remember

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

  Victor Hugo

  Birthday, Health, Medicine

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• In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Women, Income, Facts

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• Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care.

  Kathleen Blanco

  Choices, Citizens, Care

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• You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

  Anouk Aimee

  Beauty, Real, 50th Birthday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.

  Cal Thomas

  Ease, Pressure, Financial

  "Death of Terri Schiavo ... Threatens Us All" by Cal Thomas, www.foxnews.com. March 28, 2005.

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• Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.

  Geddy Lee

  Writing, Rocks, Years

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• Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs.

  Blanche Lincoln

  Children, Population, Needs

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• I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.

  Tony Hillerman

  Writing, Home, People

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• Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.

  John Shadegg

  Retirement, Thinking, Germany

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• If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.

  Jane Birkin

  Home, Cities, Rivers

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Umpires, Ignorant, Religion

  Look Magazine, February 23, 1954.

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• So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who gave him the name of Mitchell. He moved to Maine, and there he met my mother and was married.

  George J. Mitchell

  Mother, Couple, Father

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