"Till you are forty there is profit in eating, from then on drinking prospers." ~~ Talmud, Shabbat
"Old age is the mother of forgetfulness." ~~ Yehuda Ben Tibbon
"Despise not your mother, when she is old!" ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 23:22
"You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old. " ~~ George Burns
"Who wants to know all grows old before his time." ~~ Yiddish Proverb
"A man is more concerned about the loss of his money than of his days; yet his money does not help and his days will never return." ~~ Ma’avar Yabok
"Who cries over the past is offering a vain prayer." ~~ Berakhot 9:3
"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
"A sick man, when he recovers from an illness, returns to the days of his youth." ~~ Talmud, Nedarim
"When young I ate so that I could write; in old age I write so that I may eat." ~~ M. A. Ginsburg
"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. " ~~ Abraham Joshua Heschel