Quotes About Experience

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.

Young people don't know what age is, and old people forget what youth was.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

When the age is in, the wit is out.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine.