In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.
George Carlin
Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
Groucho Marx
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
Bill Cosby
The older you get the stronger the wind gets – and it’s always in your face.
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken
The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Benjamin Disraeli
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover
“As it is, the IMF economically assaults every country they’re involved with, so I guess having a rapist at the helm is appropriate.”
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
Andrew Carnegie
“Forcible sodomy” thus a working metaphor for the IMF.