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Quotes About Wisdom

Bruce Sutter has been around for awhile and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old. That will give you some idea of how old he is.
~ Ron Fairly
I like it when very little children think for themselves, because they do not have access to car keys or credit cards or crack pipes, but they have some really funny lines.
~ Roseanne Barr
We old roosters must be cautious. Don't try to outwit your arteries.
~ S. J. Perelman
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
~ Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
~ Steve Coogan
Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Chuck Norris will never have a heart attack. His heart isn't nearly foolish enough to attack him.
~ Unknown
Wisdom of the Ages: "Brian Williams Week" Now that NBC is giving him a sixth month "leave" I wonder if he will be "Killing Time-In Saudi Arabia!
~ Matthew Heines
Wisdom of the Ages: "Brian Williams Week" Just like me in 2003, it looks like Brian Williams ended up "Between Iraq and a Hard Place.
~ Matthew Heines
The more you exaggerate, the more you will look funny!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes.' Sam held out his hand. "Give me some tobacco and a paper.
~ Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.
~ Bill Cosby
Never dance in a puddle when there's a hole in your shoe (it's always best to take your shoes off first).
~ Unknown
Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.
~ Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
You know what they say, Two pairs a company, cheese a croud
~ Unknown
I squinted at her. "You're an adult." "You're an adult too." "But you're an older adult. You've had more practice." Mom leaned back and laughed.
~ Unknown
No matter how strong you are, you cannot hold open the jaws of a great-white shark with your bare hands... that can do your brain.
~ Unknown
I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Idiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.
~ Raheel Farooq
All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them.
~ Raheel Farooq
There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.
~ David Nicholls, One Day