Boy George Quotes

For me, personally, there is one really interesting thing. You're all a bit too young for that, but when you get to a certain level of experience, accumulation of experience you start slowly to once in a while get a whiff of the feeling, I'd love to be twenty years younger but with what I know and have experienced at this point.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

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

I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Be not moved alone by heated arguments and thoughts of revenge! These are for the young. We are young no longer; let us think well, and give counsel as old men!

I wish I would have listened, when I was a kid, to my elders or people who had my best interests at heart, and then I wish I would have been more conscious at that age also.

When you are 16 or 17, you think you are right about everything. But when you are over 20, you realise the mistakes you made at 16 or 18. You learn with age.

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

There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

I'm a pretty young person, but I think you need a little life experience to actually say something.

The years that pass eat up your margin for error until there is no margin left. The mistakes you make are no longer flaws of inexperience, they are flaws of character. To be young is to be constantly on the precipice of perfection—just a little further and you’ll get there—but you never get there, and suddenly you’re old, and find yourself in a permanent state of imperfection, which you must reckon with.

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Kids, don't be too big to accept advice.

The three ages of man: youth, middle age and 'my word you do look well'.

I think I've got wiser.

The young have strength; the old, knowledge

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

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.”