#old people

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#body #causes #change #changed #changes

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again! ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#box #confession #got #i #into

In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property. ↗

— Kate Millett

#because #boxed #days #farm #got

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#fact #going #i #more #old

And it's also producing a growth in debt to the United States that will weight very heavily in a country that has to address issues like having more old people to be covered by Social Security or by pension in the future. ↗

— Rodrigo Rato

#also #country #covered #debt #future

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#babies #being #cannot #compassionate #days

Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#entire #information #old #old people #our

I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people. ↗

— Ruby Wax

#employ #fat #i #myself #never

Medicines are only fit for old people. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#medicines #old #old people #only #people

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#civilization #deserted #fear #helpless #make