Quotes About Wisdom

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

Ho sempre pensato che fino ai diciotto anni, niente importi», disse Mary. «È vero», concordò Abe. «E dopo è uguale».

I'm glad it's a girl. I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Drunk at 20, wrecked at 30, dead at 40. Drunk at 21, human at 31, mellow at 41, dead at 51.

But there was Jordan beside me, who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age. As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand. So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight. *

epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

For this is wisdom-- to love and live, To take what fate or the gods may give, To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow, To have and to hold, and, in time-- let go.

Tu orgullo es lo único que posees, y si dejas que lo manipule un hombre que tiene que manipular una docena de orgullos antes de almorzar, estás aceptando un montón de decepciones que un profesional hecho y derecho ha aprendido a evitar.

She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her….

Old man and I had a long talk about the weather just now.

a man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

is the most opulent, most gorgeous land on earth—a land whose wisest are but little wiser than its dullest; a land where the rulers have minds like little children and the law-givers believe in Santa Claus; where ugly women control strong men—

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind...

I'd be a God Damned fool to live anywhere else.

Babam?n bilgiççe söylediÄŸi ve benim de bilgiççe onaylad???m ÅŸu sözünü unutmaktan halen korku duyar?m: baz? temel incelikler dünyaya adaletsiz da??t?lm??t?r.

All right,' I said, 'I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Otuzuma girdim, dedim. Kendime yalan söyleyip bunun ad?na onur diyecek ya?? beÅŸ y?l geçtim.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

I'm telling you, Dena, when you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it's worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles.

I'm too young to be old and too old to be young.

I'm too young to be old and too old to be young. I

Oh, I know a lot of people struggle, wondering is there really a God. They sit and think and worry over it all their life. The good Lord had to make smart people but I don't think he did them any favors because it seems the smart ones start questioning things from the get go. But I never did. I'm one of the lucky ones. I thank God every night, my brain is just perfect for me, not too dumb, not too bright.