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Quotes About Wisdom

My dad taught me not to overplay, to think about my parts when I play, even in a live situation.
~ Eric Hernandez
It's a different story because guess what, the kid is only 28 years old, 28. He's not his dad, not his grandpa. He's 28 years old.
~ Dennis Rodman
My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.
~ Trey Parker
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
~ David Crystal
You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
~ Taylor Dane
He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If you catch poisonous fish, throw it back into the sea.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.
~ Avicenna
Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death.
~ Big Pun
If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient.
~ Said Nursi
Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying
~ Gerard Way
Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.
~ David Gemmell, Fall of Kings
Those who give way to great anger are like the dead:Those who are free from anger are free from death.
~ Thiruvalluvar
I am appalled that the term we use to talk about aging is 'anti'. Aging is human evolution in its pure form. Death, taxes and aging .... We are ALL going to age and soften and mellow and transition.
~ Jamie Lee Curtis
They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light spirits at the end.
~ Unknown
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
~ Dave Barry
Call no man happy till he is dead.
~ Aeschylus
When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.
~ Carlos Castaneda
On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive.
~ Donal Henahan
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
~ Mark Twain
An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.
~ Charles Bukowski
Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying And dying to me don't sound like all that much fun
~ John Mellencamp