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Quotes About Wisdom

No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
~ Walter Raleigh
You can't learn something about all women. Sometimes I feel that the older I get, the less of a grip I've got on it.
~ Jamie Hince
I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.
~ Geezer Butler
That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.
~ Candace Bushnell
Dad is a new person. A person who has learned that forgiveness is better then revenge. Next year, we'll teach him that heart attacks are not like women. You just can't keep having them!
~ Christopher Titus
Guys behave like they're naive, but they're not stupid. They know what's going on.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
~ Robert Kennedy
I so believe that older women have tremendous value to their families, their community, their country, the world.
~ Sally Field
Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.
~ Hugh Grant
As I get older, I want to draw on my experience to make roles better. I see that in the older women who inspire me - their experience makes them better.
~ Anne-Marie Duff
By 40, all women are amazing.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
You cannot beat the clock. My advice is to grab your moments of grace and enjoy them while they last.
~ Amy Dickinson
General notions are generally wrong.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.
~ Myrtle Reed
For men, it's necessary to push aside that marvelous ego that tells you that you are all knowing and capable, and see that you are not.
~ Frederick Lenz
I'll dig in into my days, having come here to live, not to visit. Grey is the price of neighboring with eagles, of knowing a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen.
~ Denise Levertov
I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.
~ Diana Trilling
How few women have any history after the age of thirty!
~ Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Old women are the secret to the fluffiest cakes.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love. What a wonderful testing ground.
~ Frederick Lenz
The world has never had a greater need for enlightened women and men.
~ Frederick Lenz
My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.
~ Gelett Burgess
It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.
~ George Bernard Shaw