Everyone dies, and before that, most people eventually lose some of their faculties. So some people worry that as marketers get better at targeting the elderly, the line between advertising and unscrupulous manipulation will be harder to discern.

- Charles Duhigg

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

- John Updike

In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.

- Ginny Brown-Waite

The people who depend on an antenna are often those who are underprivileged - the elderly and the disadvantaged who can't afford a $200-a-month cable bill.

- Gordon Smith

My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

- Elizabeth Strout

A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.

- Donnie Wahlberg

I'm an old, white-haired guy. If I'm not recognized, I'm treated pretty much like every other elderly. But if people recognize me, it's a whole different thing.

- Dick Van Dyke

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

I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, 'No, it's for me.'

- Chris Lilley

As the United States has become an older nation, reverse mortgages have grown into a $20-billion-a-year industry, with elderly homeowners taking out more than 132,000 such loans in 2007, an increase of more than 270 percent from two years earlier.

- Charles Duhigg

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

- Arthur C. Clarke

Teenagers ultimately don't mind belonging to a group, because there's always the opportunity to eventually become someone new. The elderly, by definition, are running out of opportunities for reinvention.

- Charles Duhigg

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

- Bill Nighy

As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.

- Barney Frank

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

- Bill Gates

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

- Bertrand Russell

I started doing some interviews with elderly people in the family because I knew they would pass away and we would lose the power of their story.

- Anthony Shadid

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

- Arthur Smith

The Europeans have lots of data on the use of adjuvanted flu vaccine in the elderly, but I don't think anybody has really good data on adjuvants in children.

- Anthony Fauci

I believe that if you are elderly, physically or mentally handicapped we have an obligation too you, but if you are able-bodied, you should be working.

- Alphonso Jackson