Christopher Morley Quotes

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.

But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

I went through a lot, but as I went through it, I learned from the situations.

I think confidence comes with age and experience, honestly.

I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

Wisdom cometh by suffering.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

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.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

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

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.