Old Time Wise Quotes

#1. Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: break up your fallow ground, sow not among thorns.

J.C. Ryle

#2. though aging reduces speed, it increases experience and understanding

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#3. He remembered Bertolt Brecht: I would also like to be wise. In the old books it says what wisdom is: To shun the strife of the world and to live out Your brief time without fear All this I cannot do.

Madeleine Thien

#4. I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Daniel Boulud

#5. They say a basis in fact underlies most legends. They say it all the time, all those Wise Elders in all those old horror films, the high priests, the scientists, the gypsy fortune tellers. On this single issue they agree unanimously.

Robert Dunbar

#6. The only thing I find difficult to watch - horror movies - not that I don't like them. Like 'The Shining,' it's one of my favorite movies, but it's terrifying. I feel like I've watched a marathon afterwards.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

#7. The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#8. Before she continued her search she sat in his revolving desk chair, and wept for the passing of time, and the necessary death of the well-loved, wise old man.

Robertson Davies

#9. Mere animals couldn't possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

Terry Pratchett

#10. I'd like to do 'Saturday Night Live.'

Willard Scott

#11. 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

#12. Olden days cannot be reversed even with the strongest incantation, but fresh days could be invoked to be fruitful in order to stop old fruitless years

Michael Bassey Johnson

#13. There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn - there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.

Alyson Noel

#14. In an old time
there was a king as wise as a dictionary.

Anne Sexton

#15. I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford.

Gloria Swanson

#16. Whenever you get an appetite, you feed yourself. Therefore, fill your belly on wisdom of things old and new. Only swallow the truth, less you choke on the lies.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#17. You know, back in the old days adults were respected because of how wise they were, and people went to them to help settle disputes. Nowadays it's a whole different world, and half the time I wonder if grown-ups should really be in charge.

Jeff Kinney

#18. I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

Lady Gaga

#19. By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

Billy Crystal

#20. A wise old owl once told me,
One time when he was out of his tree,
That nothing in this world is for free.
I agree!

P.D. Cain

#21. We are often so convinced that we are so hurt and in pain, so much so that we opt not to forgive. Yet, as a consequence, that is what will make you weak!

Stephen Richards

#22. Think long thoughts in short sentences.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#23. The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

Octavia Spencer

#24. I don't want to see kids in America being scared because they're hearing people on television and the radio saying really ugly xenophobic and racist things.

Bernie Sanders

#25. Two magnitude 9+ earthquakes this century both altered the length of the day by a tiny fraction of a second.

Randall Munroe

#26. He leapt onto the cushion now and curled into a skein of snoring yellow fur.

Molly MacRae

#27. I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.

Henry Rollins

#28. I'm going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect.

Jon Krakauer

#29. Compassionate the mountains rise
Dim with the wistful dimness of old eyes
That, having looked on life time out of mind,
Know that the simple gift of being kind
Is greater than all the wisdom of the wise.

DuBose Heyward

#30. Every past used to be a future once upon a time

Munia Khan