“Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.”

“To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

“Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.”

Solón (-638–-558 BC) Athenian legislator

“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

“Bring home a wife to your house when you are of the right age, while you are not far short of thirty years nor much above; this is the right age for marriage.”

Hesiod book Works and Days

“We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.”

Frank W. Abagnale (1948) American security consultant, former confidence trickster, check forger, impostor, and escape artist

“Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.”

Jane Fonda (1937) American actress and activist

“Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmitted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica