Proverbs, too, extol the wisdom of age and admonish youth to honor it:

• Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
• Never speak ill of the dead.
• Dead men tell no tales.
• The dead have few friends.
• Dead men bite not.
• He that looks after dead man’s shoes may chance to go barefoot.
• Age before beauty.
• An old man can see backward better than a young one can see forward.
• If an old man lacks knowledge, at least he has experience.
• There is wisdom in age.
• Age deserves honor.
• He who does not honor age does not deserve age.
• It is good to grow old in a place where age is honored.
• Even bad parents deserve our thanks.
• With old men take counsel.
• Old men should be honored.
• An old man can be outrun but not outcounseled.