Oliver Herford Quotes

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

With age comes a greater understanding and a greater worldview.

I've known and seen a lot of things over my years.

The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

But time growing old teaches all things.

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

I've been singing about love a long time now, because my kind of love carries a different flavor. My lyrics are not so outrageous as some. You have to think about a lot of different things. You get more mature with what you do - more experience, more capable, you know, the older you get.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

You get more insight as you get older, on everything.

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 actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

I think you get better as you get older.

As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

The years teach much which the days never know.

There is something to be said for being older - and memories.

There are creative benefits to getting older.

Just as you get older, you gain more experiences, you see more things.