Joey Adams 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.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

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

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

I'm more confident now than I've ever been. As you get older, you have to be.

As you grow older, life seems funnier.

Man, I'm 31, talking like I'm 60. I really do feel in control.

You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.

Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at 30. And I grew up.

The things that I'm talking about not knowing, they're not mysteries of the universe; it's just stuff I thought I would know by the time I was thirty-nine.

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.

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.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.