Jack Kerouac Quotes

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

The best thing about getting older is knowing history. The longer you live, the longer you have been in a sport, the more you know, and the more you know where things started.

We are a very youth-driven culture, and I don't really know why because wisdom tends to come with more years, not fewer.

The older the grapes, sweeter the wine.

Better one bite at forty, of truths bitter rind, than the hot wine that gushed from the vintage of twenty.

I am not young enough to know everything.

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.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time.

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

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

Judges don't age; time decorates them.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

I am not old but mellow like good wine.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

The older you get, the more you learn.

But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.