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Quotes About Wisdom

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.
~ Matthew Fox
As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.
~ David Alan Grier
She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.
~ Derek Landy, Mortal Coil
You know Death will get you in the end, but if you are smart and have a sense of humor, you can thumb your nose at it for awhile
~ Jimmy Buffett
Our sense of humor is a gift from God which should be controlled as well as cultivated.
~ J. Oswald Sanders
I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.
~ Henry Rollins
The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.
~ Francis Alexander Durivage
Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of humor.
~ Rajneesh
Many true words are spoken in jest.
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
I'm a sarcastic person. I learn through humor.
~ Rachel Maddow
First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.
~ George W. Bush
I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
~ Oscar Wilde
Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat...college,
~ Woody Allen
Just remember, when you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.
~ Charles M. Schulz
Special Super Bowl Wisdom of the Ages: "Tom Brady's balls" Nothing more than a publicity stunt to keep the NFL Network from losing San Francisco's market share.
~ Matthew Heines
Special Post-Super Bowl Wisdom of the Ages: "Eating Crow" This year, it just tastes like Seahawk.
~ Matthew Heines
I keep telling myself sensible things, but I never seem to listen!
~ K. Farrell St. Germain
Special Super Bowl Wisdom of the Ages: "Unger Games" If your meals depend on you beating the Seahawks, you're gonna go "'Unger-y.
~ Matthew Heines
Wisdom of the Ages: "Humility" If you don't have it, you're gonna get it.
~ Matthew Heines
I'm not 17 anymore. I still have some of the same sort of anger, but I have a sense of humor about it... a sense of being constructive with that anger.
~ Dave Pirner
Fool me once, shame on youfool me twice, shame on mefool me thrice, I'm gonna get the frying pan!
~ Anthony Liccione
Special Super Bowl Wisdom of the Ages: "Patriot Act" In theater and football, it's the last act before it's curtains for Seahawks opponents.
~ Matthew Heines
I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can hear my liver rotting. For exercise, I fall down. ~ Clete
~ James Lee Burke, Creole Belle
I'm beginning to think that if you're going to have a role model you should probably pick someone who's already dead so they can't disappoint you.
~ Dyan Sheldon, Planet Janet