Elderly Persons

Famous quotes containing the words elderly and/or persons:

“[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.”
—Ben Jonson (c. 1572–1637)