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Quotes About Experience

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age.
~ Muddy Waters
Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it
~ Alexander Pope
Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.
~ Charlie W Shedd
That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.
~ Gloria Naylor
It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.
~ Nina Totenberg
Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.
~ Cecelia Ahern
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
~ Virginia Woolf
At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.
~ Tom Selleck
I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
~ Candice Bergen
If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.
~ Emma Thompson
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
~ Gene Fowler
I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty
~ Madonna Ciccone
Old age is a woman's hell.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.
~ Will Rogers
When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.
~ Millicent Fenwick
When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.
~ Penelope Cruz
We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.
~ Vance Havner
Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
~ Estelle Getty