Quotes About Experience

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

We are only young once. That is all society can stand.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.

I refuse to endure months of expensive humiliation only to be told that at the age of four I was in love with my rocking horse.

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

How the hell should I know? Most of the people my age are dead. You could look it up.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and how well you look.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of care; Youth like the summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.

Age is¦wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill.

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

We tried not to age, but Time had its rage.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility; therefore, my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but k.