Quotes About Wisdom

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

Age: that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.

Age is honourable and youth is noble.

For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

We are not limited by our old age; we are liberated by it.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least, get out of the way so you won't get run over.

Age considers; youth ventures.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger one.

Nothing is more dishonorable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age.

When I was your age, television was called books.

Live your life and forget your age.

Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.