Michael Crichton Quotes

I used to gamble when I was young. I'm wiser now.

I live my life like an 85-year-old man.

I think there's a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

I am not going to respect... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.

Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted.

But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

This is not yet a scientific age.

I respect the older guys.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced.' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine.' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.

The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.

How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!

Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

Kallor said: "I walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand strong. I have spread the fire of my wrath across entire continents, and sat alone upon tall thrones. Do you grasp the meaning of this?" "Yes," said Caladan Brood, "you never learn."

Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.

The essence of religion is inertia; the essence of science is change. It is the function of the one to preserve, it is the function of the other to improve. If, as in Egypt, they are firmly chained together, either science will advance, in which case the religion will be altered, or the religion will preserve its purity, and science will congeal.