Richard Pryor Quotes

Few people know how to be old.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

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

I quite like being old.

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

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

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

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

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.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

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.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

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.

In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.

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

At my age, you sort of fart your way into a role.

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.

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