Pauline Phillips Quotes

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

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

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

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

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.

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.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

As you get old, you live and learn.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it

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

Old age learns about less after a lifetime of more.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

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.

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

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

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.

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

Few people know how to be old.

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