John Dryden Quotes

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

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

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.

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

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.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

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.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

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

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

People mature. They learn. They get better at things. You're different when you're 45 than when you're 25.

I've been around a long time. I've seen it all before.

I'm going to be 75 in May. How can I have lived this long and not know anything?

I'm maybe not so much an exception, maybe because I've lived so long that more is coming, more is there.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

As you get old, you live and learn.

But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.

Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom.