E. W. Howe Quotes

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

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.

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

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

The old are in a second childhood.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

In America, the old are neglected.

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.

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities.

it sucks to get old...but there's always beer

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

Old age is life's parody.

People don't die of old age, they die of neglect.

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.

I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree.

a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed.

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one.

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.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.