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Famous Elder Quotes
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. — Proverbs
the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. — Andy Rooney
Take an old man’s counsel and an experienced man’s knowledge — Greek Proverbs
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. — English Proverbs
One should honor the old, one should teach the young. — German proverbs
There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man. — Lin Yutang
In Western Civilization, our elders are books. — Gary Snyder
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick — William Butler Yeats
The wisest have the most authority. — Plato
The young have the strength, the old have the wisdom. — Albanian Proverbs
Always observe, watch, and talk to older people. — Nas
Older and wiser voices can always help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen. — Jimmy Buffett
Cherish youth, but trust old age. — American Indian Proverbs
Better than the young man’s knowledge is the old man’s experience. — Tibetan Proverbs
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Short Elder Quotes
- Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. — Erik H. Erikson
- Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. — Erik Erikson
- The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder. — Jane Austen
- I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody. — George Burns
- We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children. — Joycelyn Elders
- One person caring about another represents life's greatest value. — Jim Rohn
- I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister. — Lawrence R. Klein
- I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister. — Lawrence Klein
- When kids come on the dance floor it’s time for elders to go to the bed. — Vijay Kedia
- A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders. — Confucius
Cato The Elder Quotes
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business. — James Thurber
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. — W. Somerset Maugham
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life. — Plutarch
You would make a great teacher. (Grace) Commander to teacher. Why not call me Cato the Elder, and really insult me while you’re at it? (Julian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
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More Elder Quotes
Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. — Crazy Horse
What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children. — Bernie Sanders
May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong. — Chief Dan George
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint. — Hesiod
At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us. — Black Elk
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. — George Bernard Shaw
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. — Joseph Addison
Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns. — Nelson Mandela
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people. — Connie Nielsen
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. — James Baldwin
If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed. — Michio Kaku
What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them? — Socrates
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities. — Barbra Streisand
Ivermectin must be initiated immediately for people in high-risk categories in the United States and worldwide. This includes individuals with one or more co-morbidities and the middle-aged or elderly. Our design-to-fail government-funded clinical trials for early treatment and governmental obstructionism regarding life-saving treatments to patients must end now. — Robert W. Malone
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses. — William Manchester
Always take the time to show compassion for those less fortunate, and there are many. Take the time to help a young child cross the street, or to carry a bag of groceries for an elderly lady. And every now and then, look up into that big, beautiful, blue sky and admit that there are things in this world more wondrous that yourself. — Jack Lambert
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. — Tom Stoppard
I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another? — Theodore Hesburgh
Both physical damage and death of our children from injecting them with genetic vaccines in order to protect the elderly from a virus is occurring. — Robert W. Malone
The whole world is a large Niepokalanow where the Father is God, the mother the Immaculata, the elder brother the Lord Jesus in all the tabernacles of the world, and the younger brothers the people. — Maximilian Kolbe
We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land! — Yasser Arafat
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. — George Sand
Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else. — Oscar Wilde
It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain. — Sayings
I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can't thank God and the industry enough. — Akshay Kumar
Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it. — M. R. James
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it. — John Piper
I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie. — Henrik Ibsen
Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future. — Mark Foley
I used to think that elder love, if it even existed, was confined to rocking chairs or golf carts, that it had to be a dull business because of the physical limitations of age. — Nora Johnson
It boggles my mind that the same people who cry ‘foul’ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people – elders, the poor, the disabled – who are least able to bear them. — Donald Berwick
Take care of brothers and sisters who are weaker ... the elderly, the sick, the hungry, the homeless and strangers, because we will be judged on this. — Pope Francis
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
The English language has about 450,000 commonly used words, but more may be needed. What to you call someone who has lost a sibling or had a miscarriage? Or a gay person whose partner has died? Or an elderly person who has lost every friend and relative? So many heartaches can't be found in the dictionary. — Jeffrey Zaslow
Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap. — Cloris Leachman
Older individuals in their 70's that exercised for 50+ years had skeletal muscle metabolic fitness that was indistinguishable from those of active people in their 20's. The active elderly group had cardiovascular health similar to people 30 years younger. — Rhonda Patrick
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