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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
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
In an old timethere was a king as wise as a dictionary. — Anne Sexton
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
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.
— J.K. Rowling
Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Oh, Gilbert, don't let's ever grow too old and wise... no, not too old and silly for fairyland.
— L.M. Montgomery
Appeal with respect to elderly people as you would to the members of your own family.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old.
— Jeffrey Zeldman
Old soul cries through the tears of a newborn
— Munia Khan
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
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
Treasure the wisdom of old age.Learn from elder people and be wise. — Lailah Gifty Akita
The glory of the age is beauty of grayhair.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.
— Patricia Briggs
He was a funny old dog. He liked strawberries.
— Margaret Wise Brown
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
I've always said that at the end of the day, on a legal issue, I think a wise old woman and a wise old man are going to reach the same conclusion.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.
— Flann O'Brien
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
You're never too old to make a fool of yourself
— Michael Perkins
You never too old to Become wiser !T.B — Tawana Beecham
No one is ever too old for stories." ~ Durban Chola
— E.M. Swift-Hook
A wise old owl lived in an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke, The less he spoke, the more he heard, Why aren't we all like that old bird?
— Daniel Yergin
Life biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
— Benjamin Franklin
The wise man does not grow old, but ripes.
— Victor Hugo
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
I have outlived the stillborn. I have outlasted my usefulness. I have become an abysmal ocean sponge, ten millennia old, and just as wise.
— Logan Ryan Smith
Though old and wise, yet still advise.
— George Herbert
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Ten responsible and rational young citizens are sufficient to clean up the mess of a thousand old superstitious citizens.
— Abhijit Naskar
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
Once we were young, now we are adult.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A wise witch knows the shadows come from the light.
— Dacha Avelin
Oft it may be chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were heedful for the wise to know.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
The paradox of life; everyone desire a fuller life. But no one wishes to increase in age.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.
— Martin Luther
I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.
— Glenda Jackson
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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
I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high.
— Russell Lynes
A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.
— Bear Grylls
A man can be old and a foolmany are
a man can be young and wise
few are — Charles Bukowski
In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Cardinal: You are a wise man. You will lead us well.Mortati: I am an old man. I would lead you briefly. — Dan Brown
Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.
— Chinua Achebe
Ghurman was a wise Jinni who was more than three hundred years old, and had a long history with Humans.
— Ibraheem Abbas
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
In the middle of nowhere, an old wooden bridge is a golden bridge!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.
— Robert Charles Wilson
Jane Greyson had once told me that my voice was one of the Ancients - old and wise.
— Millicent Ashby
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
He spoke with a raven's voice, old and wise and far above the cruelty of the human race.
— Alice Hoffman
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
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.
— William Shakespeare
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
The Navy is very old and very wise.
— Rudyard Kipling
The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.
— Christopher Vogler
We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school.
— Charlotte Gray
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
though aging reduces speed, it increases experience and understanding
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed ...
— T.E. Lawrence
we can become not just old but wise.
— Anonymous
13Better a poor and wise youth Than an old and foolish king who will be admonished no more.
— Anonymous
Every past used to be a future once upon a time
— Munia Khan
The dream is possible at any age. Go live your dream.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.
— William Shakespeare
