Quotes About Wisdom

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit, There is no cure 'gainst age but it

The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.

There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.

Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.

That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.

Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

The best age is the age you are.

Age is such a natural progression you shouldn't fight it.

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline

The age of 40 is not a death sentence.

At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty

Old age is a woman's hell.