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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.
Sep 10, 2025
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.
Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.
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.
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Live your life and forget your age.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
The years teach much which the days never know.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin.
It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
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.
You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
We are always the same age inside.
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
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.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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