E. W. Howe Quotes

The older you get, I have to say, the funnier you find life. That's the only way to go.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.

Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life.

You find it hard to deal with certain things and as you get older it becomes easier.

You can't stop getting older; you just have to keep going and laugh a lot.

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it.

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

I don't understand people getting depressed about getting older. There is nothing you can do about it, so you might as well embrace it.

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate.

You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.