Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.
—Claude Pepper
Topics: Age, Aging
Getting older is like riding a bicycle, if you don’t keep peddling, you’ll fall.
—Claude Pepper
The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they’ve been appointed and thinking they’ve been anointed.
—Claude Pepper
Topics: Politics, Politicians
Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.
—Claude Pepper
Topics: Persistence, Life, Living, Moving on, Balance
A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, “At my age, I don’t even buy green bananas.”
—Claude Pepper
Topics: Age
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