wisdom Quotes

“Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.”

“Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.”

“Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.”

“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”

“There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.”

“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”

“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.”

“If youth knew if age could.”

“No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.”

“The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.”