Quotes About Wisdom

I still like to listen to the people that I came of age on.

I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.

I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.

I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

I don't want to age myself.

The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.

You can only understand the present age when it is past.

I think 40 is a good age to run a country. But I've always been fast.

now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing.

Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it'd irreversible.

At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.

Don't regret growing older...remember that a lot of sugar is to be found at the bottom of the cup.

So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress.

I've never worried about age.

When I turned 40, I was like, huh. I accept myself more now. It was much more comforting.

Our thoughts determine our age.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

I put it down to the paranoia of advancing age. It isn't like I'm all that old or anything, especially for a wizard, but age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.

After a certain age, you get the face you deserve.

One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.