Quotes About Wisdom

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese. Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.

Granny Sheeran told me when I'm looking for a partner to fall in love with their eyes cause eyes are the only things that don't age, so if you fall in love with their eyes you'll be in love forever.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Age isn't important until you run out of it.

It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.

I prefer old age to the alternative.

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

The older I get, the better I was.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure.

I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.

I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

People ask me how long it took to make a work. I reply by giving them my age.

The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.