Quotes About Wisdom

These trees shall be my books.

God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

I never knew so young a body with so old a head.

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

I'll prove more trueThan those that have more cunning to be strange.

Within the book and volume of my brain.

For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase...

A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in, the wit is out.

The saying is true, "The empty vessel makes the greatest sound."

The very staff of my age, my very prop.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.

I have liv'd long enough: my way of lifeIs fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf;And that which should accompany old age,As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends,I must not look to have; but, in their stead,Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath,Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.

Men ne'er spend their fury on a child.

How much more elder art thou than thy looks!

Who wears his wit in his belly, and his guts in his head.

You two are book-men.

Some of us will smart for it.

A Daniel, still say I; a second Daniel!I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.

In nature's infinite book of secrecyA little I can read.

And then he drew a dial from his poke,And, looking on it with lack-luster eye,Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock;Thus may we see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

Happy in that we are not over happy.

An upright judge, a learned judge!

Sweet are the uses of adversity,Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;And this our life exempt from public haunt,Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,Sermons in stones, and good in everything.