Age and Wisdom Quotes

If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain.

Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

As you get older - for example, in our band we have members of our orchestra, like Carlos Enriquez and Ali Jackson and Walter Blanning. I taught them when they were in high school, and now they teach me.I'll regularly call Ali and say, "Man, can you break this rhythm down for me?" Or Carlos was actually our music director in Cuba, and he's been instrumental in a lot of my education, and I started to develop a saying with them, because they tease me all the time - you get older, you have that familiar relationship - I say, "You have to follow your young leadership, too."

You don't get to be old bein' no fool.

The younger brother hath the more wit.

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.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

I just think that the older you get, the more you appreciate the responsibility of politics.

The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

Old men are dangerous; it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wish I could have the ability to write down the feelings I have now when I am little, because when I grow up, I will know how to write, but I will have forgotten what being little feels like.'

I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I'm sure of it.

"I've learned what's funny verbally ain't so funny on e-mail: They don't hear your intonations. Melissa broke up with somebody over that. She tried to tell him: "That was a joke!" But he just didn't get it. Mick Jagger said, "F- 'em if they don't get the joke." And I love him. That comes with age: Knowing it's their problem, not mine."