“Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”
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“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
Source: My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Autobiography of Errol Flynn
Source: The Tragedies of Sophocles. A new translation, with a biographical essay by E. H. Plumptre
“The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.”
“It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.”
Source: Five Somewhat Historical Plays
“As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.”
“Maturity does not always come with age; sometimes age comes alone.”
Source: Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently
Source: Phineas Redux
Source: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)
“[Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.”
Source: The complete English works
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.”
“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
Source: Prejudices: Third Series
Source: Love Songs
“Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.”
“Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”
Source: The Book of Ammon