Hervey Allen Quotes

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

Age for me is just a number.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

What happens when you get to the age of 60 is that you have no more doubts. I know why I'm here on this planet. I know what I need to do. I know what is a distraction and what isn't.

Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

With each year I experience, I become more relaxed. I know now what is important to listen to and what to ignore. You only get that with age.

You can't get wise with sleep still in your eyes no matter what your dream might be.

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Attention is the material I work with.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.