Quotes About Wisdom

Yes, my dear, yes," said Mr. Lammeter; "one feels that as one gets older. Things look dim to old folks: they'd need have some young eyes about 'em, to let 'em know the world's the same as it used to be.

If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit

There's Jeremy Taylor's 'Holy Living and Dying' among 'em. I read

Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit

A lifeless embalmment of knowledge

Oh, I'm not angry, except with the ways of the world. I do like to be spoken to as if I had common sense. I really often feel as if I understand more than I ever hear from young gentlemen who have been to college.

it is a curious fact that the more sophisticated we become the simpler grows our speech.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

The world is full of mysteries, strange, unapproachable, overpowering mysteries that you cannot read. Trust, trust in the power, and in the wisdom, and in the goodness of Him, the Almighty One, who rules

Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven

George Harrison

Gossip [is] the Devil's radio: Don't be a broadcaster.

I don't know why nobody told you How to unfold your love

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Ancient writers sometimes meant what they said and occasionally even knew what they were talking about.

Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.

Women and men look at their life, and women say, 'What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time?' And women are intelligent enough to say, 'I need more time.' And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

Women are really beautiful in their forties, and men seem to come of age around the period of their second wife.

Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.

Forties are good! I'm thinking with my brain now, which is a lot more clear, and women seem to appreciate that. It's a wonderful decade where you're in control of yourself but the women are still interested.

You'll have to forgive me this boldness, but I think women are very fortunate that men exist! The gods are very wise and certainly knew what they were doing. They created the sun and the moon, light and darkness, the eagle and the serpent, all for the same reason. They are perfect complements and the mechanism we use to reach heaven.