Sigrid Undset Quotes

It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud.

The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.

There's an American idea that you want to look as young as you can for as long as you can. If you can be mistaken for a teenager from behind into your 50s, then you've won; you've succeeded.

I was young and naive. I didn't have the advice I have now and made mistakes. I didn't understand it was about attitude as well as ability.

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.

I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.

Looking younger and being younger is the adolescence idea.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

I don't want to age myself.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

You learn from everything.

There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth.

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.