Quotes about Wisdom
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.
— Anthony Browne
There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.
— Henry Ford
A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age.
— Cicero
As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.
— CS Lewis
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
— Virginia Woolf
I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.
— Oprah Winfrey
Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.
— Billy Graham
I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.
— Dolly Parton
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.
— Vance Havner
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally — and often far more — worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
— CS Lewis
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
— Eleanor Roosevelt