Quotes About Wisdom

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.

Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.

A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.

I think "waste of your brain" is something that my mother would say to me occasionally - I think it's usually when I'm telling her something like that I can remember every outfit I've ever worn.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!

Back-to-School Chats, Advice from Mothers to Their Daughters.

Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.

It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.

Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

Ideas of value always shun verbosity, being foreign to confusion and fantasy. Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.

The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.

The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

As I examine my life through this book, I can't help but wonder if my mother was right. Maybe I really was what I ate. And maybe if she'd let me eat a little more sugar, I'd have come out sweeter.

My mother was a very wise and strong person.

As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.

My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.

Men whose wit has been mother of villainy once have learned from it to be evil in all things.