Age And Wisdom Quotes by Tom Wilson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Satchel Paige, Abigail Van Buren, George Eliot, Bertolt Brecht and many others.
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
It’s true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
I am not young enough to know everything.
By the time you’re eighty years old you’ve learned everything. You only have to remember it.
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange – my youth.
That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.
Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don’t care to make.
