The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.
One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.
Just as I got older, I think I've become more and more conservative.
I shall not grow conservative with age.
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road.
As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.