Quotes About Wisdom

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Life's too short for chess.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

A man doesn't know what hapiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

I always advise people never to give advice.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Experience is a dear teacher, and only fools will learn from no other.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Death was Nature's way of telling you to slow down.

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.