"If youth knew; if age could. " ~~ Sigmund Freud
"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
"Idleness causes boredom." ~~ Ketubot 5:5
"A young man has to live and an old man wants to." ~~ Yiddish Proverb
"Who respects the elderly is as if he respects the Lord." ~~ Alphabet of Ben Sira
"Charity lengthens one’s days and years." ~~ Tana Deve Eliyahu Zuta
"Do not dishonor the old: we shall all be numbered among them." ~~ Ben Sira
"To seek wisdom in old age is like a mark in the sand; to seek wisdom in youth is like an inscription on stone." ~~ Ibn Gabirol
"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