Quotes About Wisdom

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people -- leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.

At your age The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble.

The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived.

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.