Rodney Dangerfield Quotes

As you get old, you live and learn.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.

I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey.

If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

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

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

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

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

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

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.

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.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

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

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

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

Every experience, good or bad, you have to learn from.

I went through a lot, but as I went through it, I learned from the situations.

I've learned from life experiences. If you go through certain things, you're able to pull from them.

Experience makes us wise.

At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.