Quotes About Wisdom

I am now old enough to no longer have a fear of dying young.

Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever — but would rather not.

When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older.

Middle age — a stealthy, crafty nemesis.

And these vicissitudes tell best in youth; For when they happen at a riper age, People are apt to blame the Fates, forsooth, And wonder Providence is not more sage. Adversity is the first path to truth: He who hath proved war, storm, or woman's rage, Whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, Hath won the experience which is deem'd so weighty.

Great artists say that the most beautiful thing in the world is a baby. Well, the next is an old lady, for every wrinkle is a picture.

Aging is an exponential clock — ticking in runaway years.

Old men are like the wrecks of time, thrown by the waves of one century upon the shores of another.

Age composes poems upon our faces — with more meaning and fewer rhymes every passing year

My younger passions are still listening as I age.

We must grow old! The years go by, Sometimes on wings they seem to fly; But why such haste? We know not why! We only know that we grow old!... The broken links of life's short chain Can never find their place again... Into the dark unknown we take The hopes misfortune could not shake, Pure as the mountain's snowy flake, Where all is well—when we are old.

Does age poison us, or do we poison age?

At a certain point, age becomes a triumph of spirit over loneliness.

Middle age is a winding path through kaleidoscopic years.

Age 14. — ...inwardly, we're much older than other girls our age. Even though I'm only fourteen... I feel I'm more of a person than a child...

I'll be sober tomorrow, but you'll be crazy the rest of your life.

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

Angels can fly directly into the heart of the matter.

Oh if there is one law above the rest Written in wisdom—if there is a word That I would trace as with a pen of fire Upon the unsunn'd temper of a child— If there is any thing that keeps the mind Open to angel visits, and repels The ministry of ill—'tis human love!

If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.

Before you give someone a piece of your mind, make sure you can get by with what is left.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

Anger and Folly walk cheek by jole; Repentance treads on both their Heels.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow.