There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive
India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to do for herself and the human peoples.
With the ancient [person] is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.
The young man must store up, the old man must use.
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness.
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
It is better to be An old man's derling than a yong man's werling.
The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.
There are a lot of truths in this world. When it rains it pours. It's always darkest before the dawn. He who smelt it dealt it.
I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
The only way you get to be a “wise man” is to outlive your contemporaries and keep your mouth shut.
Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.
We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.
From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.
Down through the ages, there has always been the spiritual path. It's been passed on - it always will be - and if anybody ever wants it in any age, it's always there.
Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness.
