Frankie Boyle Quotes

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

I got a gerontology certificate a million years ago along with my law degree, so I've been interested in older people for many years. Some people grow up with a lot of kids around, but I just grew up with a lot of old people.

For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.

No, I don't belong to a retirement community.

I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.

Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

Our traditional way: take care of the old people.

This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon their skill and sagacityand the opportunity to provide the respect and recognition they have earned. It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years to lifeour objective must also be to add new life to those years.

And now that the Greatest Generation is getting older, I think it is the responsibility of all Americans to make sure we do our part for America's seniors. You have earned the best of America -- and we need to make sure you get the protection and health care you deserve.

A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them.

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

Florida was a living tomb, she used to tell anyone who'd listen, an old-age home in the shape of a state, God's little waiting room, as she was fond of quoting.

I worry about my nan. If she's alone and falls, does she make a noise? I'm joking, she's dead.

When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.

Sunday is Senior Citizens' Day. And if you want to become a senior citizen, just call the Padre ticket office.

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

The fastest-growing population in the United States is the older people, because we are living much longer, healthier lives. The problem is, individuals often don't have the resources to take care of older people as they age. This is something that is happening, and we have to deal with it. It was happening also in my life.

Elderly people, I have found, when they're being honest, are also scumbags, and enjoy a little prurient humour as well.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.

Please don't get me wrong here. I'm not making fun of old people. In fact I think that's the goal of everybody here tonite. We all want to be an old person someday.

The old are in a second childhood.

This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people.

I'm getting so old my insurance company sends me 1/2 a calendar!

A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.