Quotes About Wisdom

One spares old people just as one spares children.

You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police.

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

When you're my age, you have the feeling sometimes that you're seeing the show come round again.

At the age of 21 I was so sensible and became a nun. I am very grateful to myself for that.

Look and you wlll see, that which was can never be. When they seek a boy your age, Run, you flippin moron, run!

This Epistle, is therefore a legacy to the Christians of all ages.

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

Nowhere in Scripture do I read where we are to discuss hospice care with seniors so they're willing to get out of the way and let younger folks live more expediently.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

I wish I had been more self-aware earlier, but I think that just comes with age.

At my age, I don't need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much.

Chinese people age overnight.

I'm not really sure where that comes from, ... Maybe it's because I've lived more than most 25-year-olds. I left school at an early age, traveled a lot ... but I still have a far way to go.

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

the impatience of the old is the worst impatience of all.

I don't mind aging. I mean, my whole thing is, it's just a privilege to age.

We all have a limited amount and that it's a privilege to grow old. That's something that I think a lot of people have forgotten in this very fast-paced world where youth is overly celebrate.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.

Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.