#elderly

‎You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner! ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#humor #inappropriate-remarks #offensive-remarks #humor

When people got old, why did they always develop a passion for scrabbling in the earth? Were they trying to get used to it? ↗

— Sergei Lukyanenko

#burial #death #elderly #humor #death

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

#dawn #elderly #government #handicapped #how

When we attempt to clear up the mess others have made, or when we love the unlovely, we demonstrate the kind of weirdness God likes. We give the lie to the evolutionary survival of the fittest maxim... ↗

— Ann Benton

#religious #service #value-of-life #age

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 sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#blacks #christians #comedy #comic #elderly

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. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#back #because #die #elderly #few

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday. ↗

— Lillian Gordy Carter

#going #helping #i #myself #old

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

#being #dad #did #elderly #evolved

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

#against #american #american government #assuring #elderly

I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#been #elderly #films #i #made