Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

I did some stupid things when I was younger, but I got a lot out of my system. Every time, my mom was waiting there with an 'I told you so.' Moms are usually right. You're wrong if you don't think that they've done what we're doing, because they have.

We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

As you get older, all the things your parents said to you when you were younger ring true, but when you're younger, you reject them.

I believe that you go through your past and you learn what you learn for whatever reason. I'm just glad I'm not making fifteen-year-old mistakes at twenty-six - I got that out of the way.

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

We respect our elders. There is wisdom that comes from experience, and I am not going to stop learning from wise counsel.

The longer you live, I believe, you learn so much about life that you have more to give.

As an actor, I'm not sure what I had to offer the world of tragedy and comedy when I was 21. I hadn't lived a whole lot. By my middle 30s, you know, I had been knocked around a little bit.

It's good to have some older friends: they have a lot more experience than us young ones.

It's only through aging and going through heartbreak and loss and successes and failures that you can look back and look at the mistakes some young people make.

I feel a lot older than I am.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.

Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.

Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all.

As you get old, you live and learn.

Experience is a teacher that knows no favorites.

Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.

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!