Quotes About Wisdom

My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

Boys, don't try to find a woman as wonderful as your mother to marry because if you do, you'll stay single your whole lives.

(mother)" She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air.

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.

Mama, you taught me to do the right things / So now you have to let your baby fly / You've given me everything that I will need / To make it through this crazy thing called life

Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?

She is more Mother than Queen.

Mother always said you were greedy.

Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

My mother insisted that her children read.

Ignorance is the mother of research.

The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.

Today, we see the reemergence of reverence for the Divine Mother that we knew in past ages.

I asked my mother I said, "You divorced my dad, how did you decide? She said, "I decided twelve years before he knew it." I was like wow; I'm learning something new every day.

Don't go running off at the mouth. Let the picture tell the story. No one tunes in to hear you broadcast the game, except maybe your mother or your wife.