"Because of war, old age creeps up on you. Of Joshua, after waging war with thirty-one kings, it is said: And Joshua became old and stricken in years." ~~ Tanchuma
"A young man has to live and an old man wants to." ~~ Yiddish Proverb
"Shame not the old: we shall all be numbered among them." ~~ Ben Sira 8:6
"To learn from the young is to eat unripe fruit and drink new wine; to learn from the old is to eat ripe fruit and drink old wine." ~~ (based on) Sayings of the Fathers 4:28
"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
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