Quotes About Wisdom

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Call no man happy before he dies.

A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

The intercourse between man and God reposes upon truths of another order than that of reason, upon a light different and more elevated than that which naturally enlightens created intelligences.

It is so seldom that a young fellow has any inclination for the company of an old man. . .

Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.

Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.

Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning that he will wait forty or even fifty years to set a trap.