Quotes About Wisdom

For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Die while alive And be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, All is good.

Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.

A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

He who learns death unlearns slavery.

How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it.

Do not expect good from another's death.

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.

Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.

age is nothing but death that is conscious.

I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the living heart.

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

To philosophize is to learn to die.