Quotes About Wisdom

At my age, I dont even buy green bananas.

Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.

These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.

Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.

He who sees age on the outside of things is doomed to underestimate the vitality of raisins.

There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

Youth is when you think you'll live forever. Old age is when you wonder how you've lived so long.

Up to forty a woman has only forty springs in her heart. After that age she has only forty winters.

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

Old age is an island surrounded by death.

Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

[T]hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning "leisure.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can.

Why is youth so short and age so long?

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.

It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives.

People remind me of my age, but while practising I am beyond my body and its age.

if you don't want to get old, don't mellow.

I think it's always important to reflect anyway, no matter what age you're approaching or what milestone is in front of you. Reflection should be almost a daily thing if possible.

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.