John C. Hawkes Quotes

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

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

I feel a lot older than I am.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

Some age, others mature.

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.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

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.

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

It takes a long time to become young.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.