Quotes About Wisdom

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.

Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?

If you want a thing done well, get a couple of old broads to do it.

At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through the same thought process I learned from the book I read at 19.

Age holds absolutely no fear for me. There is so much enjoyment ahead.

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

Do you want a happy heart when you are old? Then get with the Lord and stay with Him. That is how it works.

A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

A grandma is old on the outside and young on the inside.

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher

[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

When you get to my age, you find that most of your dear friends are gone.

I've always tried to do my very best, and I want to be the very best age, whatever age I am.

And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.