The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.
It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool
You don't get to be old bein' no fool.
There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
If to be old is not to be wise, then it is simply to be obsolete.
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.
Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
Old men are children for the second time.
When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."
It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.
…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.
Wisdom comes from experience. Handling the people's money is not a job for a politician. There's too much temptation. It might be good to let an elderly man handle your money. He's looking for the Golden Gate, not the Golden Calf.
There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.
When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.
...an old man is twice a child.
A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
When we're young, everything is possible; when we're old, possibilities are everything.
If the old dog barke he gives counsell. [If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.]
Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.
Being seventy is not a sin. It's not a joy, either.
A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.
To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.
Old people always tell you: 'When you've been around as long I have, then you can argue.' As soon as they're ripped off, it's a different story.
Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.
