Oscar Wilde Quotes

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

The young have strength; the old, knowledge

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who's my age wouldn't have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn't necessarily be able to.

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

When you're 20, you think you know a lot more than you do.

Nobody under 55 knows anything much about life. Nobody under 30 knows anything.

We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.

I've been around a long time. I've seen it all before.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.