Age And Wisdom Quotes - Page 2

• Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

  Doug Larson

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Decision

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  You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

  George Burns

  Birthday, Optimistic, Wish

  George Burns, David Fisher (1990). “All my best friends”, Perigee

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• Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happy Birthday, Twilight, Opportunity

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.627, Library of America

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• I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

  Agatha Christie

  Turning 50, Inspirational Birthday, 50th Birthday

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• Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

  George William Curtis

  Birthday, Friends, Years

  George William Curtis (1856). “Prue and I”, p.111

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• We are always the same age inside.

  Gertrude Stein

  Happy Birthday, Confidence, Positive Thinking

  "The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.

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• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Humor, Tragedy

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• The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Time

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• By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Witty, Elderly

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• Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Wisdom, Mistake, Wine

  "The Caucasian Chalk Circle". Play by Bertolt Brecht, 1944.

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• The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Solitude, Listening, Age

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• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

  Charles Dickens

  Spring, Communication, Winter

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

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• Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

  Debra Winger

  Age, Care, Lines

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• That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

  Bill Bonner

  Wisdom, Learning, Forever

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• Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Age, Skins, Comfort

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

  Debra Winger

  Cutting, Age, Care

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