Elder Quotes

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A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.
-- Dorothea Kent

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. -- Maggie Kuhn There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal! -- Maggie Kuhn Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. -- Maggie Kuhn

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
-- Doris Lessing

"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age."
-- Sophia Loren quotes (Italian film Actress, b.1934)

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
-- Douglas MacArthur

Age is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.
-- Miriam Makeba

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
-- W. Somerset Maugham

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. -- Margaret Mead

Don't just count your years, make your years count.
-- Ernest Meyers

We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberated by it.
-- Stu Mittleman

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
--Arthur E. Morgan

I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.
-- Louise Nevelson (1900 - 1988)

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
-- Eugene O'Neill

One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.
-- Harry A. Overstreet

Live your life and forget your age.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
-- Ralph B. Perry

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
-- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)

 

Elder Quotes

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HERO PIX

Betty Friedan | Maggie Kuhn

Senior Citizens Day - August 21

Intl. Day of Older Persons - October 1