Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

It is self-evident that at sixty-five a man has done all that he is fit to do.

There is no rule or tradition in the BJP to forbid leaders to contest polls after they attain the age of 75.

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

I think old people should just be old and go away.

In America, the old are neglected.

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

I'm retiring because my time is up.

I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.

I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.

I don't have this feeling that 70 is really old.

We shouldn't be put out to pasture just because we've reached somebody's idea of retirement, which was certainly happening in Australia, and I think elsewhere as well.

Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67.

I get all fired up about aging in America.

To be a former PGA Tour player typically means you're about 75 years old. They just don't stop.

There is a sort of indifference to the problem of old age. Indifference in the face of a revolution in longevity.

When you get to a certain age in society, they want to dictate to you when you should pack it in and that you should mentally grab a cane, a box of Depends, Geritol, listen to the oldies, and not eat spicy food after 9 o'clock.

Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.

All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Yeah, if anyone tries to tell you 60 is the new 40... don't believe them.

I was hoping I could die of old age in the military, but they wouldnt let me.

I would not vote to raise the retirement age to 70 because there are just too many Americans that work hard all their lives and just simply physically couldn't work until they are 70.

It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out and play it.

When people retire, they should stay retired.