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Quotes About Wisdom

I'm gonna enjoy being old I think I'll be awesome at it.
~ Craig Ferguson
The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
~ William Cowper
The arctic loneliness of age.
~ S. Weir Mitchell
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
...there is no old age of the soul.
~ Saul Bellow
I don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it.
~ Dolly Parton
Amazing Donald Trump, your age and IQ are the same.
~ Eric Walters
Welcome to the information age. Data, data, everywhere, but no one knows a thing.
~ Roger Kimball
In blues, classical and jazz, you get more revered with age.
~ Bonnie Raitt
Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills.
~ Ioan Gruffudd
We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
~ Theodore Bikel
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.
~ Russell Baker
There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
~ Samuel Johnson
It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.
~ Peter Fonda
Age and want sit smiling at the gate.
~ Alexander Pope
Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.
~ Shelley Winters
It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!
~ Alice James
Eternity becomes more beautiful as we age, if we age well. If we age poorly, then we don't improve our minds; we don't refine all the aspects of our being.
~ Frederick Lenz
Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
At 68 I'm every age I ever was. I always think of that. I'm not just 68. I'm also 55 and 21 and three. Oh especially three.
~ George Carlin
In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.
~ Horace
My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.
~ Tig Notaro
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
~ Charles Dickens