Senior Wisdom Quotes

Young people are still looking and older people have found.

Any specialized skill may be capitalized on and so may lead to arrogance and contempt of others. Even one's age may become ground for conceit. The young, because they are bright and capable, may look down upon the old; and the old, because they are rich in experience, may look down upon the young.

Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.

Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.

Nobody loves life like an old man.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

I think there has always been an obsession with youth and beauty. What's missing is the equal obsession with respect for…older people…and their wisdom and knowledge and courage.

I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and old bastards.

Old men are prone to invest the futures of young men with their own past sorrows.

Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

Few know how to be old.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.

But whats the use of being old if you cant be dumb?

Always observe, watch, and talk to older people.

Age is a state of old mind. It gets to a point where if you get old enough, you forget how old you are, and that's the best thing. And then you walk around kind of like in a fog.

All the crap they tell you about... getting joy and having a kind of wisdom in your golden years - it's all tripe.