Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes

The young have strength; the old, knowledge

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?

How can you sing a line like, 'I've fallen out of love' when you're 18? You need to experience something of life before you can sing it.

Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of virtue would guarantee a good outcome. These many years later, I know better.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

You live and you learn. My son has given me so much clarity.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

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.

I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Every experience makes you a man.

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.

I have a wife, a son, and I've had some practical life experience.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.