Elderly Quotes - Page 5

• The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.

  William James

  Attitude, Discovery, Mind

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• I don't see any elderly people in the crowd. Are there any old Dauntless? Do they not last that long, or are they just sent away when they can't jump off moving trains anymore?

  Veronica Roth

  Moving, Long, People

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Trilogy”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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

  Pope Francis

  Children, Roots, Abandon

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• Human life, the person is no longer perceived as a primary value to be respected and protected, especially if poor or disabled, if not yet useful - such as the unborn child - or no longer needed - such as the elderly.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Unborn Child, Common

  "Pope Francis, one year later -- calling us to a deeper faith" By Maureen M. Ferguson, www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2014.

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• Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker ... the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Sick, Care

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• It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.

  Pope Francis

  Sin, Mortal Sin, Mortals

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• When I was editor of the Erotic Review I fielded endless phone calls from elderly readers who thought I might like to pop round in my spare time and thrash them

  Rowan Pelling

  Phones, Editors, Erotic

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• There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Disappointment, Errors, Expression

  "The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. II, (1819; 1844; 1859).

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• I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, "No, it's for me."

  Chris Lilley

  People, Done, Lines

  "Q&A: Chris Lilley on Drag, Blackface, Teenage Girls & Confrontational Comedy". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. November 14, 2013.

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• Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.

  Paul Krugman

  White, People, Arguing

  "GOP Vice Presidential Nominee Paul Ryan". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. September 9, 2012.

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• Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

  Charles Dickens

  Reading, Writing, Character

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.165

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• Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Years, Age

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

  Mason Cooley

  Dinner Guests, May, Reason

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

  Nachman of Breslov

  Men, Young, Young Women

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• I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.

  Jeff Dunham

  Christian, Jobs, Believe

  "Comedian Defends 'Achmed the Dead Terrorist' Puppet Routine Against South African Ban" by Joshua Rhett Miller, www.foxnews.com. October 2, 2008.

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

  Holbrook Jackson

  Advice, Trying, Persons

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• Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.

  Jesse Helms

  Children, School, Learning

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• From watching Lester (Flatt), I learned that it's important to be loyal to the people who made you and bought your music. He called me up to the front of the (tour) bus on the very first trip I went on with him. Lester pointed out two elderly people who were walking towards the but. He said, 'Those two people have been coming to see me since the mid 40's. That's what a country fan is all about.'

  Marty Stuart

  Country, Two, People

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

  Paul Desmond

  Music, Twenties, Three

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• Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond which the elderly, the sick, the powerless do not starve or lack for medicine or shelter.

  Helen Thomas

  Medicine, Sick, Shelter

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• In winter the very ground seemed to reach up and grab the elderly, yanking them to earth as though hungry for them.

  Louise Penny

  Winter, Earth, Hungry

  Louise Penny (2011). “Bury Your Dead: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.141, Macmillan

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• Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.

  M. R. James

  Views, Sound, Doctrine

  M.r. James (2016). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.52, M.r. James

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• The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.

  Sarah Ferguson

  Age, Enough, Conventional Wisdom

  Sarah Ferguson (2010). “What I Know Now: Simple Lessons Learned the Hard Way”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• 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!

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Mean, College, Discipline

  Profiles of the Future ch. 2 (1962).

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• From my observation, the older you get, the more you like the word cozy.
  That's why most of the elderly wear pants with elastic waistbands. If they wear pants at all. This may explain why grandparents are in love with buying grand kids pajamas and bathrobes.

  Holly Goldberg Sloan

  Kids, Grandparent, Cozy

  Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.27, Penguin

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