Quotes About Wisdom

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

My brain is very simple. Like when you break everything down. I see things in a simple way. And that simplicity for some reason becomes funny to other people because they don't look at it that way.

Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

Being seventy has its advantages. I was outspoken before, but now what have I got to keep quiet about?

I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna.

A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge

Boys in their twenties are a waste of time. They have nothing to offer conversationally; they're immature. I feel like I have a better shot with someone in his thirties.

Keep talking, someday you'll say something intelligent.

Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Gentlemen, listen to me slowly.

A fool and his money are soon partying.

It ain't the heat, it's the humility.

Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, "Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.

Old age hath yet his honour and his toil.

I've noticed that one thing about parents is that no matter what stage your child is in, the parents who have older children always tell you the next stage is worse.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans.

Classes teaching you how to breathe. I'm 32, I think I've got the hang of it.