James Russell Lowell Quotes

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

I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

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

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

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

Men become old, but they never become good.

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

At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

Time, waxing old, doth all things purify.

The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

It took me a lifetime.

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.

The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him.

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

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be a good idea to stop being young this minute, to wait for youth to break away from you and pass you by, to watch it going away, receding in the distance, to see all its vanity, run your hand through the empty space it has left behind, take a last look at it, and then start moving, make sure your youth has really gone, and then calmly, all by yourself, cross to the other side of Time to see what people and things really look like.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.