Isak Dinesen Quotes

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

I'm old, not dead.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

While all old people have been young, no young people have been old, and this troubling fact engenders the frustration of all parents and elders, which is that while you can describe your experience, you cannot confer it.

This is what old guys do. They get dark and pessimistic.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

I'm like a 70-year-old man at heart.

I can't wait to be an 80-year-old actor. I think I'll be really good at that point!

Though old and wise, yet still advise.

Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.

Always try to learn from other people's mistakes, not your own- it is much cheaper that way!

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Life provides many lessons, so pay attention, everything you learn is valuable.

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

As you get old, you live and learn.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.