Quotes About Wisdom

I have the experience of age and suffering.

Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

She was "a woman of uncertain age.

In this day and age it's really stupid to be stupid about financial matters. It doesn't do you any good to make money if you don't know what to do with it other than spend it.

Age either transfigures or petrifies.

I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

Age hath its quiet calm, and youth enjoyeth not for haste.

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

You are perfectly right in making some slight alteration. Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

At 20 years of age the will reigns at 30 the wit at 40 the judgment.

An old man is twice a child.

All would live long but none would be old.

It is time to be old To take in sail.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.

How beautifully the leaves grow old. How full of light and colour are their last days.

Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties?

Getting older comes with abilities. Being old comes with disabilities.

The energy of youth with the experience of age is a lethal combination.

Old Age- You can tell when you're getting old when you stop taking drugs for fun and start taking them to keep you alive.-character Jackson Rockenberger (Broken)

Old age isn't a battle old age is a massacre.

The age of some women is like the speedometer on a used car - you know it's set back but you don't know how far.

Middle age is when your narrow waist and broad mind begin to change places.