Fran Lebowitz Quotes

You can't say when you are 25 years old that you know everything. You don't.

I think confidence comes with age and experience, honestly.

Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!

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.

I quite like being old.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

Few people know how to be old.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

I've always played way older than my age. It's the experience behind my eyes or something.

The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

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

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

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

Along with age comes more confidence, so it kind of works out.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

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.

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.

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

I'm an old man of 73, and I've been around a long time. If I don't know something by now, I probably never will.