Edward Moore Quotes

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

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

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.

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

In The Lime Twig I took two very young people and made them very old.

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.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

People always talk about how time flies; it's become sort of a colloquialism now. You don't really understand it until you reach your late 30s and early 40s - and I'm sure time will move even faster as I get older.

I feel a lot older than I am.

Age is like love, it cannot be hid.

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

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

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

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

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.

There's always time to grow older. You can never grow younger.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.