The Jewish Wisdom Database

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.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

Anxiety will make a man old before his time.

Idleness causes boredom.

Charity lengthens one's days and years.

A thing learnt in childhood is proven in old age.

Children grow up, parents grow old.

Days are scrolls, you may write on them what you wish.

Till you are forty there is profit in eating, from then on drinking prospers.

When young I ate so that I could write; in old age I write so that I may eat.

Boys should be given bread, old men---oil, babies---honey.

Who wants to know all grows old before his time.

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.

Despise not your mother, when she is old!

You shall rise before the aged and show deference to the old.

Abandon me not when I grow old!

Wisdom is an attribue of age.

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

Long experience is the crown of the aged.

Untutored old men---the older they get, the greater their folly; scholarly old men, the older they get, the steadier their mind.

Old age is the mother of forgetfulness.

Who respects the elderly is as if he respects the Lord.

Old age, like poverty, although no disgrace, is not a great honor either. We all expect it and we all want to look young.