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A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh. — Gilbert Highet

Marriage is a mystery that one would be wise not to solve too hastily.
Marve De Jong, Love And Other Follies Of The Great Families Of Old New York — Anna Godbersen

In an old time
there was a king as wise as a dictionary. — Anne Sexton

We think we grow old, we grow wise and more tolerant; we just grow more lazy. — John Fowles

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird? — Edward Richards

Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. — Meat Loaf

Mistakes when we are young is how we become wise when we are old. — Brad Dennison

Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise - which showed how young she was. — L.M. Montgomery

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Treasure the wisdom of old age.
Learn from elder people and be wise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

Aging is not our fault, but we certainly are guilty of feeling it. — Munia Khan

I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young. — Santosh Kalwar

An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also a little austere, but very kind. — L.M. Montgomery

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise. — Charles Kingsley

Some are born old maids, some achieve old maidenhood, and some have old maidenhood thrust upon them , parodied Miss Lavendar whimsically. — L.M. Montgomery

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

The dream is possible at any age. Go live your dream. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I do not seek to walk in the paths of the wise men of old, I seek what they sought. — Matsuo Basho

Every past used to be a future once upon a time — Munia Khan

Don't long for "the good old days." This is not wise. — Anonymous

we can become not just old but wise. — Anonymous

We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school. — Charlotte Gray

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old. — Martin Luther

The wise man does not grow old, but ripes. — Victor Hugo

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better. — Martin Luther

The paradox of life; everyone desire a fuller life. But no one wishes to increase in age. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But I am wise if not yet quite old, wanting the poem more than the lover, wanting words more than the sticky dew men secrete in their private places. — Erica Jong

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right. — Michael Crichton

Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast. — Chinua Achebe

And I wasn't old enough to be wise, so I loved her more, not less, because I knew she would be taken from me soon. — Naomi Novik

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. — William Shakespeare

In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.' — Benjamin Graham

He spoke with a raven's voice, old and wise and far above the cruelty of the human race. — Alice Hoffman

I didn't know how I felt, except confused and bewildered, and very, very young. And the world all about us was wise, and old, so old. — V.C. Andrews

Jane Greyson had once told me that my voice was one of the Ancients - old and wise. — Millicent Ashby

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see. — Robert Charles Wilson

In the middle of nowhere, an old wooden bridge is a golden bridge! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise. — Don Herold

There's an old Cheyenne saying about how, when a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove. — Larissa Ione

An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair) — Idries Shah

Ghurman was a wise Jinni who was more than three hundred years old, and had a long history with Humans. — Ibraheem Abbas

The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue — W.B.Yeats

Cardinal: You are a wise man. You will lead us well.
Mortati: I am an old man. I would lead you briefly. — Dan Brown

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A man can be old and a fool
many are
a man can be young and wise
few are — Charles Bukowski

A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from. — Bear Grylls

I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high. — Russell Lynes

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

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

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. — Ernest Hemingway,

As you are old and reverend, you should be wise. — William Shakespeare

A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not. — Lord Chesterfield

A wise old man taught me that diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power. Persuasion, not force, works best and lasts longest. — Robin Hobb