Golden Years Archives - Jewish Quotations

"If youth knew; if age could. " ~~ Sigmund Freud

"The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. " ~~ Sam Levenson

"Too honor an old man one should not sit in his place or contradict his words." ~~ Rashi

"The ignorant think less clearly as they grow older; scholars think more clearly as they age." ~~ Talmud, Kinnin

"Men worry over the loss of their possessions, not over the loss of their years—which never return." ~~ Traditional Proverb

"My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. " ~~ Henry Youngman

"Anxiety will make a man old before his time." ~~ Ben Sira 30:24

"Do not dishonor the old: we shall all be numbered among them." ~~ Ben Sira

"Happy are we whose youth shamed not our old age!" ~~ Talmud, Sukkah

"It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of finding a sickness you like. " ~~ Jackie Mason

"Old age, like poverty, although no disgrace, is not a great honor either. We all expect it and we all want to look young." ~~ Elhanan L. Levinsky

"Abandon me not when I grow old!" ~~ Psalms (Tehillim) 71:9