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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. -- Bertrand Russell
Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday. -- Lillian Gordy Carter
In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. -- Bill Gates
The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing. -- Bill Nighy
Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107. -- Martha Beck
Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future. -- Mark Foley
It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies. -- Maggie Smith
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
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
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom. -- Nachman of Breslov
So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly ugly daughter. -- W.S. Gilbert
Elderly people are like heat-seeking missiles for people who really have an interest in listening. -- Robert M. Edsel
Elderly people and those in authority cannot always be relied upon to take enlightened and comprehending views of what they call the indiscretions of youth. -- Winston Churchill
Elderly parents tend to think their relationship with their middle-aged children is smoother than the children do. Adult grandchildren, who have little stake in pulling away from their grandparents, tend to describe that relationship as less rose-colored than do Gram and Gramps. -- Robin Marantz Henig
Music is nothing but a door opener to meet families and their children and the elderly. -- Dick Dale
Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years. -- Geddy Lee
And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly. -- Paul Ryan
I am a member of the 'sandwich' generation, that group that must simultaneously care for elderly parents and support children. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned. -- Judi Dench
The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly. -- Juan Williams
A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down. -- Donnie Wahlberg
As the nation's elderly population grows, dozens of industries have tried to harness the political might of older Americans for corporate goals. -- Charles Duhigg
My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it. -- Elizabeth Strout
Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances. -- Rafael Cruz
One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide counseling.' -- Rafael Cruz
Women are more verbal than men. That's why when you see an elderly couple together, it's always the man who has the hearing aid. -- Jeff Stilson
If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s. -- Arthur Smith
The people who depend on an antenna are often those who are underprivileged - the elderly and the disadvantaged who can't afford a $200-a-month cable bill. -- Gordon Smith
After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding. -- Tony Campolo
I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power of their story. -- Anthony Shadid
Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering. -- Daniel Kahneman
Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again. -- Ricardo Montalban
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. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Humanitarian issues must bring together all people who act in good faith trying to alleviate the suffering of people in dire need - especially women, children and the elderly. -- Sergei Lavrov
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. -- Arthur C. Clarke
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
Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
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. -- Rene Cassin
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
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
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. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
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
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities. -- Barbra Streisand
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
The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most. -- Jay Leno
My family kept its history to itself. On the plus side, I didn't have to hear nightmarish stories about the Holocaust, the pogroms, terrible illnesses, painful deaths. My elderly parents never even spoke about their ailments. -- Amy Bloom
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
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
It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance. -- Sugata Mitra
Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding. -- Richard Lamm
I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do! -- Roland Joffe
Jews know this in their bones. Our community could not exist for a day without its volunteers. They are the lifeblood of our organizations, whether they involve welfare, youth, education, care of the sick and elderly, or even protection against violence and abuse. -- Jonathan Sacks
Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France's leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country. -- Paul Johnson
When I've ridden in parades, I always throw to the kids, the elderly and anyone who is smiling and having a great time. I try to make eye contact with the person. If you catch a ton and a kid nearby hasn't caught much, share. -- Bryan Batt
Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question. -- Bernie Sanders
There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that. -- Aubrey de Grey
Each one of us can do a good deed, every day and everywhere. In hospitals in desperate need of volunteers, in homes for the elderly where our parents and grandparents are longing for a smile, a listening ear, in the street, in our workplaces and especially at home. -- Shari Arison
I believe that the role of limited government should be looking after the needs of veterans, the elderly, children and those institutions that improve the quality of life for struggling families - I don't believe that government should bend to serve the needs of subsidized multi-national corporations and entitled billionaires. -- Moby
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people. -- Connie Nielsen
My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free. -- Cat Cora
Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive. -- Theresa May
Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?' -- Yuvraj Singh
The old ox plows a straight furrow -- English Proverb
In old age, one should do something monumental -- Xiao Qian
It is always in season for old men to learn -- Aeschylus
Old men must die, or the word would grow moldy, would only breed the past again -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy -- Alexander Chase
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself-a lad of about 19 -- E. B. White
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
The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived -- Juvenal
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this -- Golda Meir
The elderly are useless eaters. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young. -- Nikolai Gogol
It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly. -- Pope Francis
Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old! -- Herman Melville
Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him. -- Holbrook Jackson
Treat the elderly as a nonrenewable resource; they care! -- Woodrow M. Kroll
The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands. -- Scott Douglas
Love, care and treasure the elderly people in the society. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
People who watch morning television are elderly, infirm or emotionally immature. -- Roy Hattersley
It always a blessing to learn the wisdom from elderly people. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I actually had the urge to elbow an elderly lady today... -- Bill Burr
To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years. -- Donald Laird
The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history. -- John Cusack
I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. -- Maggie Smith
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here. -- Albert Einstein
I'm an elderly Jewish lesbian trapped in a 33 year old nerd's body. -- Eric Andre
Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above. -- Paul Desmond
Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly. -- Richard Armour
the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. -- Andy Rooney
The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly. -- Frank Field
"What is the most beautiful word in the language?" The elderly lawyer quickly replied: "Home." -- Chauncey Depew
People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go. -- Ramsey Clark
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A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future. -- Pope Francis
Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing. -- Michel de Montaigne
Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh! -- Dodie Smith
I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover. -- Rosamunde Pilcher
One of the most important jobs of the youth is to make the elderly happy. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly. -- Bill Gates
It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance -- Pope Francis
An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men. -- Charles Dickens
The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives. -- Mason Cooley
Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different. -- Herbert Gold
Cruelty is cruelty, whether it's cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens. -- Russell Simmons
Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired. -- Armand Hammer
In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly -- Pope Francis
My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive. -- Mindy Kaling
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses. -- William Manchester
At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout. -- Edmund Wilson
Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs. -- Paul Krugman
When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children. -- Nancy Gibbs

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