"Till you are forty there is profit in eating, from then on drinking prospers." ~~ Talmud, Shabbat
"Respect an old man who has lost his learning: remember that the fragments of the Tablets broken by Moses were preserved alongside the new." ~~ Talmud: Berakot 8b
"Who wants to know all grows old before his time." ~~ Yiddish Proverb
"Who cries over the past is offering a vain prayer." ~~ Berakhot 9:3
"No individual can be constructed entire without a link with the past." ~~ Achad Ha’am
"Days are scrolls, you may write on them what you wish." ~~ Bachya
"Wisdom is an attribue of age." ~~ Job (Iyov) 12:12
"Old age is the mother of forgetfulness." ~~ Yehuda Ben Tibbon
"Untutored old men—the older they get, the greater their folly; scholarly old men, the older they get, the steadier their mind." ~~ Talmud, Shabbat
"My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. " ~~ Henry Youngman
"To be old is a glorious thing when one has not unlearned what it means to begin. " ~~ Martin Buber
"By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it. " ~~ George Burns
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