Ian Mckellen Quotes

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

I don't want to hang around in a wheelchair in a nursing home. I don't. I don't want to be like that.

When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.

I think sometimes in relationships, ladies like having a man who takes care of them, nurtures them. If you can't find it in a man your own age, you find it in somebody who is older.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

I never need to go far if I need a reminder of how important Medicare and Social Security are to Missouri's seniors. My mom, Betty Anne, is one of millions for whom these services provide a reliable safety net. Across the country, these protections are an integral part of sustaining millions of seniors' health and dignity.

When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.

If you want to live a hundred years, how do you want to live your life? At the age of 100, you should go shopping with your great-grandchildren, but not in a wheelchair.

I am in the prime of my senility.

I've decided to pick my moment to retire very carefully - in about 200 years time.

I just pray I can keep working. I just pray I grow old gracefully.

In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age.

Nearly every American will encounter the need for long-term care.

In advanced age, and in cases of disability from accident, natural infirmity or any other cause, the individual shall be supported by the colony, and receive every comfort which kindness can administer

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Nothing is funnier than a true story told by a bitter old black man.