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• Those who respect the elderly pave their own road toward success.

  Topics in African Proverbs, Respect, Success

  Tags in Elderly

• But I think people see ‘Wallace and Gromit’ as something akin to an elderly couple. These two know each other so well. Nothing can split them apart.

  Nick Park

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Couple, Elderly

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

  Maggie Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Elderly, Films

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prevail, Elderly

• Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Elderly, Men

• An adult male living alone stops being a vaguely tragicomic bachelor once he is found in the circumstance of simultaneously taking a whiz and eating a sandwich

  Dean Allen

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Adulthood, Elderly, Body, Mind

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

  Caryn Leschen

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Adulthood, Elderly, Body, Mind

• 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 Joshua Heschel

  Topics in Age, Respect

  Tags in Elderly, Testing

• It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

  Lydia Maria Child

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Govern, Grace, Elderly, Old Age

• The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

  Napoleon Hill

  Topics in Age, Fear, Funny

  Tags in Elderly, Poverty

• Too many people grow up. That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don’t remember what it’s like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won’t do that.

  Walt Disney

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Growing Up, Adulthood, People, Elderly

• Whenever a man’s friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

  Washington Irving

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Elderly

• I grow old learning something new everyday.

  Solon

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Elderly

• 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 Delany

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Elderly

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ignorant, Obscenity, Magistrate, Elderly

• I’ll tell ‘ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people

  Bob Hope

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Ageing, Elderly

• He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

  Joseph Addison

  Topics in Age

  Tags in One Day, Young, Elderly

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Write, Elderly

• The old ox plows a straight furrow.

  Topics in English Proverbs

  Tags in Elderly, Straight