Quotes About Experience

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

Age is a bad traveling companion.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Old wine and friends improve with age.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.

It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the pleasures of youth.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.