Quotes About Wisdom

I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.

When asked in his late 90s if his doctor knew he still smoked, Burns said, 'No ... he's dead.'

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

At what age do you think it's appropriate to tell a highway it's adopted?

I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Oh, to be seventy again!

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.

The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.