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

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

You see yourself as if old and wise.
I see you really miss your childhood. — Toba Beta

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 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

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

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

Appeal with respect to elderly people as you would to the members of your own family. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

A wise, joyous bookit unfolds the knowledge and the beauty of the two lives it embraces-old wisdom and young discover, intertwining like vines. — Rex Reed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can't be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy. — Chris Brown

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

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

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

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

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

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 fool
many 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old. — Confucius

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

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

13Better a poor and wise youth Than an old and foolish king who will be admonished no more. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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