J. B. Priestley Quotes

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

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

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.

I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run.

I'll never make the mistake of being 70 again.

Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.

My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

Youth is wasted on the young.

I quite like being old.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.