Enid Bagnold Quotes

I associate wisdom and grace with age.

As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.

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

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

If you're older, you're smarter. I just believe that. If you're in an argument with someone older than you, you should listen to 'em ... even if they're wrong, their wrongness is rooted in more information than you have.

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

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

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

But time growing old teaches all things.

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

Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.

Being seventy is not a sin.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

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

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.