Quotes About Wisdom

Old age has the last word: the purely naturalistic look at life, however enthusiastically it may begin, is sure to end in sadness. . . . This sadness lies at the heart of every merely positivist, agnostic, or naturalistic scheme of philosophy.

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

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

How the hell should I know? Most of the people my age are dead. You could look it up.

I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.

For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasance, age full of care; Youth like the summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.

There sit the sainted sage, the bard divine, The few, whom genius gave to shine Through every unborn age, and undiscovered clime.

Age is¦wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.

The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it.

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Youth is not measured by the age of a person, but by the curiosity a person keeps.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill.

In old age, one should do something monumental.

In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

We tried not to age, but Time had its rage.