Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.
It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.
When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.
Old folks are the nation.
The thing you want to be able to do is to be well-liked when you retire. I know right now I'm not close to retiring, and I'm not close to being liked.
The old are in a second childhood.
I'm just waiting to be 85 and be in a pajama community. Everyone's welcome to join me.
Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?
Sunday is Senior Citizens' Day. And if you want to become a senior citizen, just call the Padre ticket office.
old folks is the nation.
I've retired a couple of times. It's great, because you can just say, 'Oh, I'm sorry. I'm retired.'
I am going to retire, and it is going to be a permanent retirement.
No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.
Retirement? You're talking about death, right?
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.
I went to UC Santa Cruz, overlooking the Bay of Monterey and Santa Cruz, in 1969. Back then, the city was part-hippie, part-surfer, but mostly retired chicken farmer.
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.
I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.
There are more old drunkards than old doctors.
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.
No elderly person should be like an “exile” in our families. The elderly are a treasure for our society.
Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing.
When you get to 60, the word "retirement" comes in on every conversation.
When I go visit my mom in the retirement community where my parents live, she has a bunch of friends, and she will say, 'These neighbors I play bridge with have a son with an idea,' and it goes from there.
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.
