Estelle Getty Quotes

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

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

Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

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.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

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.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

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.

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

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.

The young have strength; the old, knowledge

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.

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.

How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!

Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

I quite like being old.