elderly quotes

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

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

One aged man – one man – can’t fill a house.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

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

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

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.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

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.

At my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.