Quotes About Wisdom

For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age.

When the age is in, the wit is out.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

Age is a bad traveling companion.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.

It is a man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grow torpid in old age.