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Writing about the indignities of old age: the daunting stairway to the restaurant restroom, the benefits of a wheelchair in airports and its disadvantages at cocktail parties, giving the user what he described as a child's-eye view of the party and a crotch-level view of the guests. Dying is a matter of slapstick and pratfalls. The aging process is not gradual or gentle. It rushes up, pushes you over and runs off laughing. No one should grow old who isn't ready to appear ridiculous.


John Mortimer


#dying #handicaps #age

A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.


William Dunbar


#does #handicapped #know #lawyer #men

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.


Hubert H. Humphrey


#dawn #elderly #government #handicapped #how

I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal.


Gary Johnson


#anymore #being #criminal #drink #handicap

You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally handicapped guy even if he punches you first. And you don't argue when a women tells you she's only making 80 cents to your dollar. It's the path of least resistance. You save your energy for more important battles.


Scott Adams


#argue #battles #candy #cents #dinner

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.


Paul Tournier


#accepting #away #comes #complexes #contrary

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.


Richard Reeves


#handicap #his #intellectual #lowering #mundane

Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.


DeForest Soaries


#beyond #blind #computerized #easy #electronic

The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.


M.D. Birmingham


#family #handicapped #health-and-fitness #inspirational #mind

As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheel Meeting people of different kinds, Remember that being handicapped Is only a state of mind


Stephen Cosgrove


#handicap #inspirational #lesson #tolerance #inspirational