Eric Clapton Quotes

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

I've always played way older than my age. It's the experience behind my eyes or something.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.”

When I said, 'I'm only 19, but my mind is old' - at that time, when I said that line, I was 18.

I've always been a very young person with a very old soul.

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

for whenever men are right they are not young

He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress.

Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.

There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

People say, "Age is just a number." A lot of times it's not just a number. It's actually a real and true sign of someone's maturity. But in this case, she's fantastic.

Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.

I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.

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.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.