Quotes About Wisdom

A woman who is careful with her words is a gift to all who know her.

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

The true wealth of a community is measured by how carefully it listens to its women and how sincerely it values their wisdom. Empowering women empowers us all.

Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.

Women over thirty are at their best, but men over thirty are too old to recognize it

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

God forbid, men should be jealous of knowledge as they are jealous of women.

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.

Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.

Women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

I didn't marry to have children. I married to have a relationship, and I was blessed with one child. I was an only child, too - my mother was smarter than most women today; she just had me.

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.

We are wise, wise women. We are giggling girls.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.

Women can do anything men can do, but often have more sense than even to be interested.