Quotes About Wisdom

I have come to regret being right about anything anymore.

Someone once said that failure is easier to live with than regret, and it pierced my heart like an arrow.

You have good days and bad days when you get to be my age," Finn said. "And you never can predict which it's going to be.

child, Lord, with the soft mantle of your love. Teach

It's easier to live with failure than with regret.

If you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit.

A smart man learns from his

Because William taught me that you can't expect to be treated as a man if you act like a child, and that every life is precious and can be lost in an instant of stupidity or bad luck. He taught me not to waste the opportunities I had, because so many young men never had a chance at them, never had the chance to grow old.

Now, as an adult with that healthy dose of perspective we call experience, I realize my mother was right, as she was so often when it came to my life.

I have a lot more patience now than I did when I was twenty-five, and patience is a big part of being a parent." "I

My mother used to tell me that life is a lot like reading a book. You don't know what is going to happen next unless you turn the page and read to the ending. That's the beauty of reading. The journey.

You know that saying, the one I've told the kids about growing old being a privilege, not a right?

failure is easier to live with than regret

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. Justice Felix Frankfurter Henslee v. Union Planters Bank, 1949.

It's like my dad used to say. If you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit." "That's

If you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit." "That's

you take this shit to heart, you die with a heart full of shit.

Tracy's mother had liked to say that when a person hit seventy, they aged in dog's years; the transformation was that much more pronounced.

There comes a day in every man's life when he stops looking forward and starts looking back. —Maxwell Hill FOREWORD My mother called it "God's will.

Arrogance leads to ignorance, because it colors one's perception.

Mais on laisse n'importe quel connard débile devenir père

life is a lot like reading a book. You don't know what is going to happen next unless you turn the page and read to the ending. That's the beauty of reading. The journey.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

there is nothing so dangerous as a maxim. —C. J. MAY, "Some Rules of Evidence: Reasonable Doubt in Civil and Criminal Cases" (1876)