Lloyd Cutler Quotes

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

When you've lived as long I've lived, you see things from a bigger lens, and you try to share that with the young guys coming up, including being patient.

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

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

An elder statesman is somebody old enough to know his own mind and keep quiet about it.

Be not moved alone by heated arguments and thoughts of revenge! These are for the young. We are young no longer; let us think well, and give counsel as old men!

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.

I'm maybe not so much an exception, maybe because I've lived so long that more is coming, more is there.

As you get old, you live and learn.

It took me a lifetime.

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

I'm an old guy. I've been doing this a long time. And I don't hustle and I don't bustle. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age.

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

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.

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

I like getting older and being the person who people ask for help.

There's no such thing as old age. I'm no different now than I was 50 years ago. I'm just having more fun.

One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.