{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/arw/arw56.htm","path":"isl/arw/arw56.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/arw/arw56.htm","text":"Arabian Wisdom, by John Wortabet, [1913]\nAn old man among his people is like a prophet sent from God.\nTo venerate old age is to revere God.\nYouth is a kind of madness.\nThe wisest young men are they who follow the good example of the old, and the most foolish old men are they who follow the bad example of the young.\nIt is the duty of every one to be tender to the young and respectful to the old.\nAn old man should not give up his old habits, nor take to new ones.\nAn old man speaks of what he has seen, and a young man speaks of what he has heard.\nGrey hairs are a sign of wisdom, and are beautified by reverence.\nA hoary head is a rich cream churned by long years.\nGrey hairs are a message from the other world.\nAfter old age there is nothing but infirmity or death.\nAn old man cries out, \"O that youth would return for a day, that I might relate to it what the roll of years has done to me!\"\nThe hair often becomes white, not from the succession of years, but from a succession of evils.\nLife is a parting shadow and youth a departing guest.\nWhen a young man says he is hungry, believe him; but when he says he is tired, do not believe him.","title":"Arabian Wisdom: Youth and Old Age","type":"page"}