Bill Veeck Quotes

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

People assume that I'm wiser than I am because I'm somewhat successful. Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. If you're dumb when you're young, you're going to be dumb when you're old.

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

You can be plain and smart, or pretty and smart. You can even be plain and dumb! You just have to be yourself.

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.

A woman has the age she deserves.

Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.

I tend to go for women with common sense. Being down to earth stands out more than looks.

An elder statesman is somebody old enough to know his own mind and keep quiet about it.

I've had old people in my life that I really loved - especially women - so I'm not scared about getting old. It's what's inside that makes us beautiful on the outside.

There is nothing more beautiful than personality wrinkles.

When you're 20, you think you know a lot more than you do.

The great thing about getting older and doing TV and theatre is that the roles get more interesting, and you're not cast because, 'Oh, she's always looked extraordinary.'

I look in the mirror and see lines, but I have earned those lines. It has taken me 59 years to get them and I am not losing them now.

Youthful beauty is a poor indicator of long-term appeal in a man.