Top 75 Wise Age Quotes
#1. We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
Oscar Wilde
#2. 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
#3. Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#4. Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened and selfish idiots.
Fritz Zwicky
#5. With age comes wisdom, you ever hear that?"
"I did, but I've found that wisdom has a cut-off point of around one hundred and twenty years. Once you reach that, you're really as wise as you're going to get.
Derek Landy
#6. I fear that we live in an ahistorical age in which we believe that we are so wise that we no longer need the lessons of the past, perhaps most disturbingly of all that technology has put us beyond the lessons of the past.
J. Rufus Fears
#7. God is not all that interested in your grammar. He is interested in the meaning of your grammar!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#8. when a culture needs wise spiritual guidance the most, all it gets from religious leaders is anxious condemnation and critique, along with a big dose of nostalgia for the lost golden age of the good old days. We
Brian McLaren
#9. I fancy that the spirit of old Tom Hossie, wise with age and vastly weary of the labor and troublous delights of life, hungered and thirsted for death.
Jack Williamson
#11. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
Bram Stoker
#13. Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.
Thiruvalluvar
#14. The story is told of a famous German chemist that his marriage did not take place, because he forgot the hour of his wedding and went to the laboratory instead of to the church. He was wise enough to be satisfied with a single attempt and died at a great age unmarried
Sigmund Freud
#15. Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#16. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
Meat Loaf
#17. But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.
Alexander Pope
#18. If man had the wisdom of age in youth and the vitality of youth in age, then he would be an eternally wise young man. (Feb 2003)
James King
#19. I loved playing Sasha. You don't have this on every job, or every show or movie, but every day was really an adventure, character wise, for what I got to do at that age.
Brigid Brannagh
#20. The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.
L. Ron Hubbard
#21. I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.
Sophocles
#24. A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age.
Nicholas G. Carr
#25. To me, my peers are Bruce Springsteen and Mick Jagger. I'm not talking age-wise, but in terms of careers. Madonna. Those are my peers. And I'm okay with that.
LL Cool J
#26. And my parents don't want me to tell my grandmother - who, let's be honest, is already in the bottom of the ninth inning, age-wise - that
Robin Benway
#27. A smartphone is an addictive device which traps a soul into a lifeless planet full of lives
Munia Khan
#29. Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.
Jimmy Buffett
#30. Yeah. He wants to be a ... what do you call those guys?" "A sommelier?" "Right. Said he wanted to see your collection." "At fifteen he's already decided what he wants to be?" "Lots of guys have." "Is that wise? To limit your options at such a young age?
Ryu Murakami
#32. What is a normal goal to a young person becomes a neurotic hindrance in old age. - CARL JUNG No wise person ever wanted to be younger. - NATIVE AMERICAN APHORISM
Richard Rohr
#34. But there was Jordan beside me, who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#35. Treasure the wisdom of old age.
Learn from elder people and be wise.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#36. No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
Ernest Hemingway,
#37. You're just the romantic age," she continued- "fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty." - Hildegarde
F Scott Fitzgerald
#38. Do not wait for the tide to take you, my boy. Instead, you take on the tide
Ahmad Ardalan
#39. Women have more energy, for a greater number of years, than men. Men, as they age, become either more wise or more stupid.
Sandro Veronesi
#40. I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That's a high calling and it's a great responsibility.
Iyanla Vanzant
#42. 1 Corinthians 3:18-19
Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become 'fools' so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight.
Anonymous
#43. I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.
Philip Dunne
#44. It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing
David Hume
#45. I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace.
Gregory Corso
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. It was the kind of building that remembered things, deep-down things, things that rode tears into the world, telling them back to anyone old enough or wise enough to know how to listen with their eyes.
Charles M. Blow
#50. The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
Seneca The Younger
#51. Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age. Maya
Harlan Coben
#52. Well isn't that one thing you're all the more wise for? Age has taught
you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody
knows what's going on
Cecelia Ahern
#53. Wisdom is a virtue of old age, and it seems to come only to those who, when young, were neither wise nor prudent.
Hannah Arendt
#54. 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
#55. No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.
Aurangzeb
#56. Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with great blows, and, in old age, teach the chastened to be wise.
Sophocles
#57. That in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in this age do think their forefathers have been fools, by which they prove themselves to be such.
Margaret Cavendish
#58. Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#59. I'm growing fonder of my staff;
I'm growing dimmer in my eyes;
I'm growing fainter in my laugh;
I'm growing deeper in my sighs;
I'm growing careless of my dress;
I'm growing frugal of my gold;
I'm growing wise; I'm growing
yes,
I'm growing old.
John Godfrey Saxe
#60. My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
Dakota Johnson
#61. The right of education of the female sex, as it is in a manner everywhere neglected, so it ought to be generally lamented. Most in this depraved later age think a woman learned and wise enough if she can distinguish her husband's bed from another's.
Hannah Woolley
#62. 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
#64. We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#65. Appeal with respect to elderly people as you would to the members of your own family.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#66. Too often my sister talks like this. She doesn't speak like she's wise for her age, she speaks wise for any age.
Sarah Noffke
#67. What to say if I was wise and on your age I will take the chances and take Reddit Collection #1 and #2...
But if you are hungry... go and buy one sandwich!
Deyth Banger
#68. Just as the dweller in this body passes through childhood, youth and old age, so at death he merely passes into another kind of body. The wise are not deceived by that.
Anonymous
#69. By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.
Santosh Kalwar
#70. Without any formal personal finance education or trustworthy resources to tell them otherwise, the majority of people in the 18-to-24-year-old age bracket do not know how to use credit effectively, tackle debt or make wise decisions when it comes to spending.
Alexa Von Tobel
#71. The paradox of life; everyone desire a fuller life. But no one wishes to increase in age.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#72. If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community that values the life of the mind
J.P. Moreland
#73. Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it.
Munia Khan
#74. By the age of 13, I knew I wanted to be a comedian like Morecambe and Wise. So, obviously, I thought I'd better start practising my interviews for Parkinson. Don't look shocked - I wasn't the only teenager to imagine that. Though I may have been the only one to have chosen T'Pau as my walk-on music.
Miranda Hart
