Quotes About Experience

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

The older you get, the easier it is to shoot your age.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.

A grandma is old on the outside and young on the inside.

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.