Quotes About Wisdom

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Old age is not a joy, but death is not a gain.

I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90.

To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy in our age can do for those who study it.

I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.