Walter Scott Quotes

Youth is still where you left it, and that's where it should stay. Anything that was worth taking on life's journey, you'll already have taken with you.

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.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.

Even though you can have a youthful energy, it doesn't mean that you can't know a lot and bring a lot to the situation.

It’s not like your soul gets older. It gets wiser.

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

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

When you're younger, think less and do more; when you're older, do less and think more.

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.

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

But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

Wisdom comes with winters

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

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.

Life will teach you, but you have to live long enough to get those lessons.

Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.

A man learns with age, if he is lucky.