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Quotes About Experience

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
~ Pope John XXIII
The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.
~ Jane Austen
Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.
~ Matthew Perry
Age is like love, it cannot be hid.
~ Thomas Dekker
Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
~ Muhammad Ali
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
~ Phyllis Diller
One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
~ Aphra Behn
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
~ Graham Greene
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.
~ William Shakespeare
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
~ Martha Graham
At your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble.
~ William Shakespeare
The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.
~ Proverb
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
~ George William Curtis
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
~ Voltaire
I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
~ George Burns
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
~ Edmund Burke
The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
~ Aristotle
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
~ Carolyn Wells
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived.
~ Knut Hamsun
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
~ Unknown
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
~ Joseph Joubert