Quotes About Experience

Maturing as a poet means maturing as the whole man, experiencing new emotions appropriate to one's age, and with the same intensity as the emotions of youth.

Old age is the harbor of all ills.

Just as darkness is sometimes defined as the absence of light, so age is defined as the absence of youth.

Some things get better with age. Like me.

It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.

I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends. They are Bachpan (childhood), Jawani (Youth) and Budhapa (old age).

There's nothing good about being my age.

What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial works, before the seventieth year none is worthy.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

People say, "Age is just a number." A lot of times it's not just a number. It's actually a real and true sign of someone's maturity. But in this case, she's fantastic.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries - the body has a stronger memory than your mind.

George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?

Old age is second childhood.

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

I'm the same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth.

Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.