Edgar Degas Quotes

It is always in season for old men to learn.

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.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

I get more optimistic as I get older.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.

You don't get older, you get better.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, this happens as you get older. I loved my 40s - I thought they were fantastic. And I'm loving my 50s. I'm going to love everything because you're either older or dead!

I may be older but I never stopped studying.

I've never been scared of aging.

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

Never stop learning and adapting. The world will always be changing. If you limit yourself to what you knew and what you were comfortable with earlier in your life, you will grow increasingly frustrated with your surroundings as you age.

As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A lot of people in other professions are retired at my age. I care about music more than ever.

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

It is never too late to learn.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

A young man's ambition - to get along in the world and make a place for himself - half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.

Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first principles, or, at least, does not comprehend all those things which are necessary to be known; and that therefore progress is to be made to the very end of life: for this is our wisdom, to be learners to the end.