Quotes About Wisdom

I dare say it is good for one now and again to realize what an idiot one can be! But no one relishes the process.

Sometimes one sees things clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time.

The thing people don't seem to want anywhere nowadays...is anyone who's got a bit of ordinary common sense...but I often think that that's the only thing the world really needs-just a bit of common sense.

Nobody understands the art of living nowadays,... Catching trains, making appointments, fixing times for everything—all nonsense. Get up with the sun I say, have your meals when you feel like it, and never tie yourself to a time or a date. I could teach people how to live if they would listen to me.

There is a proverb my grandmother used to repeat: Old sins have long shadows.

To know when to use the truth is the essence of successful deception

I think you are wise. You haven't got what it takes for this job. You are like Rosemary's father. He couldn't understand Lenin's dictum: 'Away with softness.'" I thought of Hercule Poirot's words. "I'm content," I said, "to be human...." We sat there in silence, each of use convinced that the other's point of view was wrong.

Things are simple as a rule

She used to say:"The young people think the old people are fools, but the old people KNOW the young people are fools!

C'est une femme," said the chef de train again. "Women are like that. When they are enraged they have great strength." He nodded so sagely that everyone suspected a personal experience of his own.

The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.

Nobody over fifty has got any sense.

The longer the time that has elapsed, the more things fall into proportion. One sees them in their true relationship to one another.

Life is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

It is a great advantage to be intelligent and not to look it.

If you hadn't anything worth saying why go chattering all the time?

because I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you. I've often done it over contracts. And it's also a good thing to seem stupider than you are.

We're all mad, dear lady," he said as he ushered her in through the door. "That's the secret of existence. We're all a little mad.

What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living. But later there's a new stage. You can think, observe life, discover something about other people and the truth about yourself. Life becomes real--significant. You see it as a whole. Not just one scene--the scene you, as an actor, are playing. No man or woman is actually himself (or herself) till after forty-five. That's when individuality has a chance.

We all have the little grey cells. And so few of us know how to use them.

Men have courage-one knows that...but they are more easily deceived than women.

Meanwhile we have learnt something, and to know is to be prepared.

I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

You seem to know a hell of a lot about everything, you little foreign cock duck.