Quotes
Quotes about Wit
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Merchant Of Venice)
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed
When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Tom Wilson.
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
God gives nuts to those with no teeth. -Arabic proverb.
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. -Mark Twain.
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.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another ...
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Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing.
