Sophie Swetchine Quotes

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.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.

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.

No man grows wise but he have his share of winters.

Days should speak, and multitudes of years should teach wisdom.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

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.

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

The man of wisdom is the man of years.

I quite like being old.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

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

Judges don't age; time decorates them.

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

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

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

But time growing old teaches all things.

It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

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.

If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.