Quotes About Wisdom

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

People say, "Age is just a number." A lot of times it's not just a number. It's actually a real and true sign of someone's maturity. But in this case, she's fantastic.

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.

George Burns has been on my show twenty or thirty times, or maybe more. How can you turn down a guy that age?

Old age is second childhood.

To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion.

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

I'm the same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.

The older you get, the easier it is to shoot your age.

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.