J. K. Rowling Quotes

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

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

A man growing old becomes a child again.

I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

I am too old to think.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around.

It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been where you are. It's the weirdest thing. You just can't get your head around that, can you? You can't get your head around the fact that someone who is 60 was once 16, if you're 16. But the fact is they have been, and they remember it.

The human life is all one thing, like a blade tracing loops on the ice: a little kid, a twenty-three-year-old infantry sergeant, a middle-aged writer knowing guilt and sorrow.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

I find it strange when people can't relate to kids, because you were a kid once, you know?

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.

You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.

Life is sweet, but sometimes old people just don't get it.

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.

When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.

When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.