The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
‐‐ Alberto Giacometti
The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion.
‐‐ Katherine Dunham
The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.
‐‐ Jimmy Nail
The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
‐‐ Reynolds Price
The older I've gotten, the more I try to stay out of the gym.
‐‐ Geoff Stults
The older I've gotten, the more I've learned that I have to open myself up to all opportunities. Maybe I'll get burned and not meet the right people, but I won't know until I do it.
‐‐ Selena Gomez
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
‐‐ Ed Asner
The older ideas are rendering more and more bland music.
‐‐ Tom Jenkinson
The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.
‐‐ Liv Ullmann
The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.
‐‐ Maurice Chevalier
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf
The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.
‐‐ Donald Judd
The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.
‐‐ James Hillman
The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.
‐‐ Sara Rue
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
‐‐ Pope Paul VI
The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances.
‐‐ Georges Cuvier
The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.
‐‐ David F. Houston
The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter.
‐‐ Hermann von Helmholtz
The older we get, the more we desire to reclaim our body at 25; we'll take our face at 35, the elasticity of our mind at its most powerful, to return ourselves somehow to our most vital moment of rigor and protean creation.
‐‐ Michael Paterniti
The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.
‐‐ Brian Sibley
The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.
‐‐ Jean Giraudoux
The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.
‐‐ Alan Jackson
The older you are when you buy an annuity, the shorter your life expectancy will be - so the greater a monthly paycheck the same sum of money will buy you. When interest rates are higher, the size of the paycheck for the same sum of money will rise also.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky
The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'
‐‐ Jeff Daniels
The older you get and the wealthier you get, the more complicated life becomes. That's why I have as few material assets as possible. Every material thing you have is more hassle.
‐‐ Peter Hargreaves
The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.
‐‐ Robin Wright
The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.
‐‐ Janet McTeer
The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
‐‐ Salman Khan
The older you get, the easier it is to get injured. But what I've learned the hard way is that the more excess weight you have, the more likely you are to get injured doing everyday things.
‐‐ Steve Howey
The older you get, the farther from the camera you need to be.
‐‐ Heather Locklear
The older you get, the few slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?
‐‐ Drew Barrymore
The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
‐‐ Rachel Weisz
The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
‐‐ Victoria Beckham
The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.
‐‐ Julia Roberts
The older you get the more realistic it is that you're significant other is your significant other. I mean, you'll always have your girlfriends or your guy friends, but the person you're married to is usually your No. 1.
‐‐ Ellen Pompeo
The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.
‐‐ Eve Ensler
The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.
‐‐ Tia Mowry
The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.
‐‐ Jonathan Pryce
The older you get, the more you learn.
‐‐ Martina Hingis
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.
‐‐ Rowan Atkinson
The older you get, the more you realize that the way you look is a reflection of how you treat yourself.
‐‐ Hope Davis
The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet.
‐‐ Kevin Smith
The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.
‐‐ Dido Armstrong
The older you get, the more you start to realize that you can't win an argument in a relationship. You can't win a fight with your woman. Because if you lose, you lose. And if you win, you lose.
‐‐ Trevor Noah
The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.
‐‐ Edward James Olmos
The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.
‐‐ Jack Nicklaus
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft
The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.
‐‐ Michael Graves
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
‐‐ Samuel Butler
The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox