He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed. — T. E. Lawrence
The young have the strength, the old have the wisdom. — Albanian Proverbs
Take an old man’s counsel and an experienced man’s knowledge — Greek Proverbs
A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird. — Flann O'Brien
There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man. — Lin Yutang
Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise. — Stevie Nicks
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. — Proverbs
Cherish youth, but trust old age. — American Indian Proverbs
You can't be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy. — Chris Brown
Better than the young man’s knowledge is the old man’s experience. — Tibetan Proverbs
Wise men change, fools stay the same. — Kevin Gates
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed. — Edward Young
Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem. — African Proverbs
Some folks are wise and some otherwise. — Josh Billings
Old And Wise Image Quotes
Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.
Getting Old And Wise Quotes
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late — Benjamin Franklin
Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. — C. E. M. Joad
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. — Dorothy Fuldheim
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.
The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. — William Butler Yeats
The human race is just getting started.... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheerios. We might get better, maybe even wise, if we can last another thousand years. — Ellen Gilchrist
If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more primitive mode of social intercourse, picking our friends the way children do, - because we like them, - spending time enough with them to get some real good out of them. — Mary Heaton Vorse
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise. — Barbara Kingsolver
When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age. — Erik Erikson
No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not. — Gregory Maguire
Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise. — Barbara Kingsolver
Wise With Age Quotes
Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice. — Alexander Pope
I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all. — Myrlie Evers-Williams
I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace. — Gregory Corso
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind. — Alexander Pope
But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years. — Thomas Jefferson
In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world. — Richard Baxter
Be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise enough to stand together when the time comes.
It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over. — Laurie Colwin
He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age. — Ambrose Bierce
Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age. — Thiruvalluvar
You are a steward of every moment, of every talent, of every gift, of every resource that God has given you. Chose wisely what you do today! — Paul Washer
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself. — Laurell K. Hamilton
You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for. — Taylor Swift
A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them. — Lao Tzu
No matter what we eat, how much we exercise, how resilient our genes are, how skinny or young or wise we are—none of it will matter unless we’re breathing correctly. That’s what these researchers discovered. The missing pillar in health is breath. It all starts there. — James Nestor
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. — Pearl S. Buck
Fools live to regret their words, the wise regret their silence.
If you search everywhere, yet cannot find what you are seeking, it is because what you seek is already in your possession. — Lao Tzu
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription. — Isaac Newton
What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow. — Epictetus
This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment of captured beauty. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape. — Louis L'Amour
Age And Wisdom Quotes
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. — Dorothy Parker
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth. The Bible is endorsed by the ages. Our civilization is built upon its words. In no other book is there such a collection of inspired wisdom, reality, and hope. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age — Jawaharlal Nehru
Fools take the knife and stab people in the back. The wise take a knife, cut the cord and free themselves from the fools.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness of the coming world. — Sufyan al-Thawri
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. — Paul Klee
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.
I think it's taken me this long to really trust myself, but now I do, I really do. Thanks to my experience and wisdom, I've learned not to be so naive and trusting. Today I question everything and listen to my instincts. — Deborra-Lee Furness
Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder; it is best done when one is a child; after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it. — Truman Capote
Maybe if you're younger you have more energy - but that's a big maybe. Because at this stage of life, I have more patience, understanding, wisdom, resources - and a husband. I didn't get him until I was 39. But I got a good one. — Angela Bassett
Older But Wiser Quotes
Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels. — Marianne Williamson
What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same. — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y — David Levithan
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is. — Michael Haneke
But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us. — Lisa Lutz
One thing I can guarantee you. You may not be a great deal wiser from my talk today, but you will be a great deal older. — Melvin Helitzer
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
But I believe the older I get, I'm wiser and I train smarter. — Tyson Gay
Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that - if you dare. But get older because it's fun! — Maya Angelou
I'm older, and I'm better. I'm not old, but I'm older and wiser. — Torii Hunter
Obviously, matches and all that stuff takes its toll on your body and so forth. But as you get sort of a bit older, a bit wiser, and a bit more experienced, you know also how to handle it. — Roger Federer
Older And Wiser Quotes
You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility. — Stevie Nicks
Life's a game made for everyone and love is the prize. So wake me up when it's all over - when I'm wiser and I'm older. All this time I was finding myself and I didn't know I was lost. — Avicii
The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get. — Rakim
We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out. — Melissa Etheridge
In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair. — Usher
When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window. — Billy Ocean
I'm just seeing as I grow older, and hopefully wiser, that a lot of things I see from a race perspective are class problems too, so I should be advocating for all. — Killer Mike
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better. — Christian Nevell Bovee
As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy. — Dennis Prager
It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Words Of The Wise Quotes
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. — Dalai Lama
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. — Socrates
Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned" — Al-Ghazali
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. — Charles Bukowski
I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint. — Hesiod
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be. — Dale Carnegie
When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact. — Malcolm Muggeridge
A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat. — Paulo Coelho
Old Wisdom Quotes
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. — Pericles
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat. — Leon Trotsky
In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place. — Susan L. Taylor
When an old man dies, a library is burned with him. — African Proverbs
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. — George Sand
How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets. — Henry David Thoreau
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too. — Luther Standing Bear
Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. — Carl Sandburg
The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity. You are never too young to learn, never too old to change. Your yearnings to learn and change come from a divinely instilled striving for eternal progression. Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity. — Russell M. Nelson
Seamen three! what men be ye?
Gotham's three Wise Men we be.
Whither in your bowl so free?
To rake the moon from out the sea.
The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine,
And our ballast is old wine. — Thomas Love Peacock
The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance of the moon that looks down upon the resorts of summer time. Wise, ripe, and portly, like an old Bacchus, it waxes night after night. — Donald C. Peattie
A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? "I got it from my bad judgment." — Sydney J. Harris
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard. — Luther Standing Bear
Almighty Father! let thy lowly child,
Strong in his love of truth, be wisely bold,--
A patriot bard, by sycophants reviled.
Let him live usefully, and not die old! — Ebenezer Elliott
A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service. — Plutarch
For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles. — Origen
It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul. — Sarah Moore Grimke
I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious. — Glenda Jackson
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one. — Herman Melville
She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so. — William Shakespeare
Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change. — Molly Keane
You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think. — Ric Keller
Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding to mulct the whole country. — S. J. Perelman
When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode away to right the world. But now I’m old - and good and bad, Are woven in a crazy plaid. I sit and say the world is so, And wise is s/he who lets it go. — Dorothy Parker
Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer. — Benjamin Franklin
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes. — Euripides
We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school. — Charlotte Gray
My friends, when I was young, were always older than I was, and I've always liked them. And I love old men and old ladies, really. But I've known more elderly men, like Max Beerbohm, like Beranard Berenson, like Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill-I'd put him first, anyway-what they say is so wise and so good. They know what they're talking about. — Vivien Leigh
The Navy is very old and very wise. — Rudyard Kipling
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do. — Phyllis Diller
[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were old enough, they were wise enough, and they knew their history and this is why they came out in support of us, because they knew that we had our finger on the right move. — John Carlos
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile — Homer
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. — John Le Carre
There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good "free holy" beans. — Will Rogers
But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all. — Black Elk
It's the primordial characters [of the Star Wars]. It's the beautiful princess and the callow youth and the smartass that I played and the wise old warrior that Alec Guinness played. And it was a fairy tale. It was a fairy tale. — Harrison Ford
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old. — Confucius
Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise. — Charles Kingsley
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;No wisdom but in submission to the gods.Big words are always punished,And proud men in old age learn to be wise. — Sophocles
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites. — Philip Pullman
A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines. — Rex Reed
Tis well to be merry and wise,
'Tis well to be honest and true;
It is best to be off with the old love,
Before you are on with the new. — Charles Robert Maturin
The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into Britain by Julius Caesar; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go home again. — John Arbuthnot
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