Quotes on Senior Citizen

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.

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.