Old Is Wise Quotes

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise. — Sophocles

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

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

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

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

The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us. — Ashton Applewhite

The glory of the age is beauty of grayhair. — 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

It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old. — Patricia Briggs

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

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

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

Life biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late — Benjamin Franklin

There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man. — Lin Yutang

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. — Benjamin Franklin

Youthful exuberance is splendid. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows. — Frederick Pollock

Do not speak harshly to a grown-up man. He is old enough to be your father. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain. — Kabir

No one is ever too old for stories." ~ Durban Chola — E.M. Swift-Hook

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

The Navy is very old and very wise. — Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

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

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

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