Quotes About Experience

It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

At 50 you now have realized ?Getting old isn't fair? And that it's hard to make a comeback ?When you haven't gone anywhere

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.

I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

The trouble with class reunions is that old flames have become even older.

I'm 60 years of age. That's 16 Celsius.

Some people reach the age of sixty before others.

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

Yes, you're very very old But try to think of it as not being cursed After all, in a hostage situation You'd be released first!

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.

Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?