40 phrases about the elderly to value the best age

Being elderly is accumulating experiences and wisdom that must be shared!

I made a rule about these things, which I recommend you young man: as soon as you feel too old to do something, do it.

Margaret Deland

Elderly is just someone who has an advanced age; old is someone who becomes obsolete. Live many years, but never grow old!

There is no book in the world that contains the wisdom of an old man.

Aging is not “lost youth”, but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

There are two seasons in life, childhood and old age, when happiness is in a box of chocolates.

Carlos Drummond deAndrade

Taking care of an elderly person is taking care of the memory of a people.

An elderly person should be treated with all the care in the world, as he has already taken care of many people.

When an old man dies, a library is lost.

indian proverb

A nation that values ​​the elderly is a rich and wise nation.

Nothing is less honorable than an old man who has no other evidence of having lived long except his age.

seneca

All young people will one day be elderly. It is the natural cycle of life. So always respect those who have many stories to tell.

Respecting the elderly is treating one’s future with respect.

Forty years is old age for youth, and fifty years is youth for old age.

Victor Hugo

If time ages your body, but not your emotion, you will always be happy.

Augusto Cury

Aging is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

Elderly people carry all possible emotions: from sadness to joys, from disappointments to achievements.

We don’t stop playing because we get older. We age because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

In youth, we learn. In old age, we understand.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Be patient and be careful with the elderly, because one day they were like us.

The boy who does not cry is a savage. The old man who does not laugh is a fool.

Being elderly is a privilege that, unfortunately, not everyone has.

Hear your father, who begat you; don’t despise your mother when she gets old.

Proverbs 23:22

Arise in the presence of the elderly, honor the elders, fear your God. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 19:32

Respecting the elderly is honoring the past and building a better future.

The old man of today, yesterday had the face without wrinkles you enjoy now.

With fragile hands and eyes that carry all the wisdom in the world, the elderly light our way with wisdom from other times.

In youth one must accumulate knowledge. In old age make use of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Do not rebuke the old man sharply, but exhort him as if he were your father; treat the young as brothers; elderly women, like mothers; and the girls, like sisters, in all purity.

1 Timothy 5:1-2

Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.

Proverbs 17:6

It is on the mistakes and successes of the elderly that we should base our lives.

The beauty of young people is in their strength; the glory of the aged, in their white hair.

Proverbs 20:29

The elderly know how to make the best use of their time, as they are time itself.

An elderly person knows that there are not always answers, but stories.

Gray hair is a crown of splendor, and it is obtained by living a righteous life.

Proverbs 16:31

Abandoning the elderly is a mortal sin. The elderly should be a reservoir of wisdom for all of society.

Pope Francis

Seniors are big kids who haven’t lost their innocence and yet gained experience.

Men are like wines: age sours the bad and sharpens the good.

cicero

Love and respect the elderly, for they are the beams that support the roof of the experience.

Never abandon those who spent your whole life with you. Appreciate the elderly around you.