Elders Quotes

"Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses."

Maggie Kuhn

"Treat with reverence due to age the elders in your own family, so that the elders in the families of others shall be similarly treated."

Mencius

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."

Stanisław Jerzy Lec

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.”

African Proverb

“The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person.”

Andy Rooney