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Though old and wise, yet still advise. -- George Herbert
He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed... -- T. E. Lawrence
I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious. -- Glenda Jackson
You can't be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy. -- Chris Brown
We may look old and wise to the outside world. But to each other, we are still in junior school. -- Charlotte Gray
Babies are thinking and attracting before they are speaking. Even though you are only months old in your physical body, you are a very old and wise Creator, focused in that baby's body. -- Esther Hicks
When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I was an adult, I no longer spoke like a child. When I became old and wise, I spoke again like a child. I wish I had spoken all my life like a child. -- Robert Muller
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites. -- Philip Pullman
No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not. -- Gregory Maguire
The Navy is very old and very wise. -- Rudyard Kipling
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens. -- Victor Hugo
Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise. -- Charles Kingsley
As you are old and reverend, you should be wise. -- William Shakespeare
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise. -- William Shakespeare
In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is no such thing as the old age of the wise. -- Sophocles
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. -- Benjamin Franklin
In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary. -- Anne Sexton
There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man. -- Lin Yutang
The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old. -- Christopher Vogler
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf
Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age. -- Joan Erikson
You see yourself as if old and wise.I see you really miss your childhood. -- Toba Beta
If to be old is not to be wise, then it is simply to be obsolete. -- Sam Smith
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard. -- Luther Standing Bear
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young. -- Santosh Kalwar
An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair) -- Idries Shah
By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. -- Billy Crystal
You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see. -- Robert Charles Wilson
A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from. -- Bear Grylls
Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise. -- Barbara Kingsolver
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. -- Ernest Hemingway
It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old. -- Patricia Briggs
There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old. -- Confucius
Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise â?? which showed how young she was. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
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 very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh. -- Gilbert Highet
It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better. -- Martin Luther
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
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
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
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
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
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. -- Brigitte Bardot
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
What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks even minimal originality. -- Kenneth Turan
I am very healthy. Career wise, even old men get to be in movies. So as long as I am healthy, I will continue to make movies. -- John Travolta
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
Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism. -- Camille Paglia
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You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave. -- Dylan Brody
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
The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. -- William Butler Yeats
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
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 any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school. -- Hermann Hesse
It is always wise, particularly in the beginning, to balance your new intuitive and psychic understandings with good old common sense. A good psychic perception follows your common sense. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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

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