Quotes About Wisdom

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

Where there is a woman there is magic.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

Even though you get a little twinge every now and again with the years marching on and become aware of your own mortality, you realise you're only limited by your imagination.

Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow.

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.

The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant.

Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.