"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. " ~~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
"For the ignorant, old age is winter; for the learned, old age is the harvest." ~~ Hasidic Proverb
"Middle age is when a man is warned to slow down by a doctor instead of a policeman." ~~ Sidney Brody
"Boys should be given bread, old men—oil, babies—honey." ~~ Talmud, Yoma
"Idleness causes boredom." ~~ Ketubot 5:5
"When does a man begin to feel that old age seized him? When he suddenly sees a new generation that conquers the field of labor and does the work differently from his practice." ~~ Achad Ha’am
"The past lays a railroad track for the future." ~~ Ze’ev Vladimir Jabotinsky
"Wine is as good to the old as milk is to babes." ~~ Yalkut Shimoni
"No individual can be constructed entire without a link with the past." ~~ Achad Ha’am
"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