Florida Scott-Maxwell Quotes

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Deeper things, heavier things happen to you as you get older and makes you more open.

To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.

As you get old, you live and learn.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

I am too old to think.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

Getting older has been a bonus for me. I feel lucky that parts are being written for someone my age and I am around to play them.

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

Aging is interesting, you know? I really love it.

I've never been scared of aging.

You find it hard to deal with certain things and as you get older it becomes easier.

I softened in my old age.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

Old age takes in part savoury wisdom for its food - see to that your old age will not lack in nourishment.

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.

An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.

There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.