Matter Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

The old men will always think they know it all.

— Kenny Chesney

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

— Andrew Carnegie

Do not dismiss the words of the old; they possess wisdom, which comes only with age, and often speak of things that the young…

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent…

— George Bernard Shaw

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than…

— Wendell Berry

I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

— J.K. Rowling

While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.

— Thomas Jefferson

In this Age, when it is said of a man, He knows how to live, it may be implied he is not very honest.

— George Savile

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

— George Chapman

When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to…

— Marilynne Robinson