I. F. Stone Quotes

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Being seventy is not a sin.

As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.

The young have strength; the old, knowledge

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

When people think of me initially, they remember me as 'Akeelah.' Sometimes it can be frustrating to be remembered at an age that you've outgrown.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.

Most of you are so young you don't know who I am, and that's good.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Tom Brokaw was never young.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

No man grows wise but he have his share of winters.

An elder statesman is somebody old enough to know his own mind and keep quiet about it.

Aging is a synonym for living.

With the ancient [person] is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.

Elders are the books of the young.

An old man in a house is a good sign in a house.