Quotes About Wisdom

I want to see craggy old faces on the telly. I find them infinitely more fascinating than pretty young ones.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

I have a temper, and it can flare from time to time, but as I've gotten older and more experienced, I think I use it in a controlled way. Oftentimes, I'm acting.

Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.

I have made a few mistakes with my temper, I know. But I have learned from that.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

The physiological signs, of getting on in age, are enervatingly apparent. What creeps up on you insidiously are the changes of temperament.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

From age 16 to age 20, a woman's body is a temple. From 21 to 45, it's an amusement park. From 45 on, it's a terrarium.

Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.

I remember, as a kid, my grandfather would grab my temples and say, 'You've got to focus, Jake. You've got to focus.'

The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.

Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.

I want a better Bible, Adam. I want a Bible in which the Fruit of Knowledge contains the Seeds of Wisdom, and makes life more pleasurable for mankind, not worse. I want a Bible in which Isaac leaps up from the sacrificial stone and chokes the life out of Abraham, to punish him for the abject and bloody sin of Obedience. I want a Bible in which Lazarus is dead and stubborn about it, rather than standing to attention at the beck and call of every passing Messiah.

Seven Ages: first puking and mewling Then very pissed-off with your schooling Then fucks, and then fights Next judging chaps' rights Then sitting in slippers: then drooling.

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

Adults always wonder what to say and how to say it when they're talking to a child. You want to be wise, but all you are is a child yourself in a larger body. Nothing is ever what it seems. The things that you think you know are never certain. I know that now. I wish that I didn't, but I do.

As a man gets older, his regrets changes. Especially when he's gotten into the Scotch.

I do not worry about dying – when you get to my age you never think about it, you just carry on with life and enjoy it.' Vernon Jones - Ox & Bucks Light Infantry - D-Day Veteran

Oh, I see. I think. I don't have to actually know things I don't know, I just have to know what they are and realize that they're in the don't-know category." The kid drained the last of a mug of Coke and slammed it down hard on the bar. "That's it!

Oh, I see. I think. I don't have to actually know things I don't know, I just have to know what they are and realize that they're in the don't-know category." The kid drained the last of a mug of Coke and slammed it down hard on the bar. "That's it!" Despite himself, Barton felt proud. He took

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.