Quotes About Age

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.

A 45-year old looks a lot like a 25-year old who's been out all night. And feels just as good about having survived the experience.

I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick one up and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

The longer my career has gone, the more I seem to score... It's experience and age and knowing where the ball's going to be.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age . . . for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages.

In any age, our problems are a result of sin, and the solution is faith and obedience.

One should never tie his faith to how old the earth is.

Never believe in any faith younger than you are.

Age doesn't define maturity. Some people will never grow up.

Age is no guarantee of maturity. I have found that if a person was foolish and immature throughout their lifetime, when they reach old age, they are still foolish and immature.

I'm grown isn't an excuse for ignorance. Age doesn't define maturity.

Sometimes being mature in my thoughts has its disadvantages simply because so many who are my same age are immature in theirs.

Some people mature too fast, some too slow. Some never had a childhood, some never grow.

Now that I'm at a certain age, families become a bother and this is how I know I've become independent.