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Quotes About Wisdom

Now, we live in an age where we have so much information that we do tend to overload. The Greeks did too, though.
~ Oliver Stone
Ages are All Equal. / But Genius is Always Above The Age.
~ William Blake
The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.
~ Bette Lord
I want to age nicely. Rather than being afraid of aging, I want to take each year coolly and age gracefully.
~ L.Joe
I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.
~ Charles Dickens
Almost any age is better than twenty-two.
~ David Rakoff, Fraud: Essays
If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.
~ Edgar Howe
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
~ Mason Cooley
In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
~ Homer
I'm age-appropriate. I dress age-appropriately, I choose mates age-appropriately. I'm a big believer in people should act their age...
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
People who behave at forty as they did at twenty must sometimes wonder why their charm is not working.
~ Mason Cooley
You know you've reached middle age when all you exercise is caution
~ Abraham Lincoln
The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can't.
~ Ronnie Wood
With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.
~ Mason Cooley
I've always admired Gene Hackman, Jack Lemmon, Jimmy Stewart, Gregory Peck. I'm showing my age here.
~ Tim DeKay
Middle age is when the best exercise is one of discretion.
~ Laurence J. Peter
Age is just a number baby, what are you now? 40?
~ Stephenie Meyer
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.
~ Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.
~ Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz
How is it possible for me to feel so young and so old at the same time?
~ Nancy E. Turner
A man of fifty looks as old as Santa Claus to a girl of twenty.
~ William Feather