William Holden Quotes

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

If you live long enough, lots of nice things happen.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.

Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young.

I'm always looking for something. Not in an unhappy way. I just like to try different things. I don't want to be morbid, but I'm not getting any younger.

I am more interested in experiencing life than in analyzing it.

Age brings about everything; but it is not the time, Madam, as we know, to be a prude at twenty.

Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

I am all the ages I've ever been.

My later years are my treasure years.

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life

I've seen that most people change as they get older.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

We all, at some point, grow old and acquire other qualities, and these can always be turned to good advantage.

Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.