The Jewish Wisdom Database

Respect an old man who has lost his learning: remember that the fragments of the Tablets broken by Moses were preserved alongside the new.

To learn from the young is to eat unripe fruit and drink new wine; to learn from the old is to eat ripe fruit and drink old wine.

Do not dishonor the old: we shall all be numbered among them.

Too honor an old man one should not sit in his place or contradict his words.

The prosperity of a country can be seen simply in how it treats its old people.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

To seek wisdom in old age is like a mark in the sand; to seek wisdom in youth is like an inscription on stone.