Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

With age and experience, I started to know myself better.

As I get older, the things I'm sure of become fewer.

Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

The older you get, the better you realize you were.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

I felt I grew up when I was about 28. I feel pretty much the same. I get reminded when I look in mirrors that I am not. Hopefully, you keep growing and keep planning things as you go along.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out.

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.