“By the time you re thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.”
“A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. ”
“It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.”
“doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time,”
“Sweet sixteen is when the claws come out.”
“I am not young enough to know everything.”
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.”
“I am aware I sound like a Marxist Victor Meldrew but, guess what, I m over 50 and I don t give a fuck.”
“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
“At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”
“Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.”
“Age isn t how old you are but how old you feel.”
“You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.”
“Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
“I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.”
“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”
“Now, five years is nothing in a man s life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung”