"If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I”d still have to say it. " ~~ George Burns
"I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either. " ~~ Jack Benny
"For the ignorant, old age is winter; for the learned, old age is the harvest." ~~ Hasidic Proverb
"Wisdom is an attribue of age." ~~ Job (Iyov) 12:12
"Shame not the old: we shall all be numbered among them." ~~ Ben Sira 8:6
"Long experience is the crown of the aged." ~~ Ben Sira 25:6
"The past lays a railroad track for the future." ~~ Ze’ev Vladimir Jabotinsky
"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. " ~~ Golda Meir
"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
"One present moment is worth more than seven months gone by." ~~ T. Shapira
"Boys should be given bread, old men—oil, babies—honey." ~~ Talmud, Yoma
"The ignorant think less clearly as they grow older; scholars think more clearly as they age." ~~ Talmud, Kinnin