The Jewish Wisdom Database

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.

Who overcomes his troubles in a hundred years will live long.

Who cries over the past is offering a vain prayer.

No individual can be constructed entire without a link with the past.

The past lays a railroad track for the future.

One present moment is worth more than seven months gone by.

A sick man, when he recovers from an illness, returns to the days of his youth.

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.

Wine is as good to the old as milk is to babes.

Happy are we whose youth shamed not our old age!

A young man has to live and an old man wants to.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

If youth knew; if age could.

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

People think all I have to do is stand up and tell a few jokes.Well, that's not as easy as it looks. Every year it gets to be more of an effort to stand up.

What grows never grows old.

Middle age is when a man is warned to slow down by a doctor instead of a policeman.

To be old is a glorious thing when one has not unlearned what it means to begin.

As men age, their opinions change.

For the ignorant, old age is winter; for the learned, old age is the harvest.

The ignorant think less clearly as they grow older; scholars think more clearly as they age.

Men worry over the loss of their possessions, not over the loss of their years---which never return.