Quotes About Experience

A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

Age is the most terrible misfortune that can happen to any man; other evils will mend, this is every day getting worse.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

If youth knew; if age could.

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of thirty-five.

I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD...I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Age appears to be best in four things, - old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, Could I get you your check? and we answered, How about the menu first?

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet.

Age is honourable and youth is noble.

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.