Robert Jordan Quotes

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Few of us have been so exceptionally unfortunate as not to find, in our own age, some experienced friend who has helped us by precious counsel, never to be forgotten. We cannot render it in kind, but perhaps in the fulness of time it may become our noblest duty to aid another as we have ourselves been aided, and to transmit to him an invaluable treasure, the tradition of the intellectual life.

The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

The great wisdom of the world comes from the very old.

Elders are the books of the young.

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

An old man in a house is a good sign in a house.

Histories make men wise.

The best thing about getting older is knowing history. The longer you live, the longer you have been in a sport, the more you know, and the more you know where things started.

I really love standup because it's something that I've been literally doing for 40 years, which means I'm a thousand years old.

The older you get, I have to say, the funnier you find life. That's the only way to go.

At my age, I'm not trying to score cool points. I'm just excited when I can speak to younger members of our audience in the WWE. I just get to be a superhero to kids, but I'm not trying to be on the cutting edge of style or anything like that. Once you reach that point of deprivation, you don't mind it.

It's amazing, seeing people of all different ages singing lyrics to songs we wrote when we were so young and thought we knew everything.

Gerald Wilson was one of my mentors: he was in his nineties before he passed and, literally, every time I saw him, he'd be like, 'Man, Kamasi, I've got this new thing! Nobody ever heard anything like this before!' It's amazing hanging out with somebody that was born in 1918.

I have always listened to elders in my life.

I think you can always learn lessons by the guys who came before you.

We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.

I'm just a guy entertaining people and telling the truth and teaching them science.

Probably the only thing that I really don't like about being an old guy is so many of the people who understand what we know are gone.

People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.

I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.

At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.

Rich with the spoils of time.