Quotes About Experience

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

After the age of eighty, all contemporaries are friends.

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.

I started super young, but when I think about myself at that age - what I thought I knew, and how priggish I was, how certain of things - now I realize that nothing is certain.

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

Writers are opposite of athletes, they get better with age

within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.

The first concert I attended was an Elvis concert when I was eleven. Even at that age he made me realize the tremendous effect a performer could have on an audience.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

No matter what age you are, if you have it and you know it, then people should listen to you.

I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.

I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23, 24 and 25, I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.

There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.

Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.

I don't want people to think about my age. Notbecause I don't want them to know my age, I just don't want them to think about it, I don't want itto be a factor.

The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.

What have I got better than anyone? Age.

You can't stop the aging process. There's only so much oil you can put on your body. I've always just tried to go with my age.

Politicians, old buildings, and prostitutes become respectable with age.