expression
you're never too old to learn
Proverb encouraging lifelong learning, literally 'learning calligraphy at eighty'. Used to express that it's never too late to start something new.
八十の手習いというから、今からでも新しいことを始めよう。
They say you're never too old to learn, so let's start something new even now.
The phrase originates from the idea of an eighty-year-old person beginning to learn calligraphy, symbolizing that it is never too late to learn.