William E. Vaughan Quotes

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

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.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.

No man grows wise but he have his share of winters.

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

Yeeres know more then bookes.

Years teach us more than books.

Wisdom comes with winters

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

The older you get, the more you learn.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

But time growing old teaches all things.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.