Wisdom Quotes

"Wisdom comes with winters."

- Oscar Wilde

"Advice is like the snow. The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind."

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary."

- Arthur Schopenhauer

"At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement."

- Benjamin Franklin

"When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home."

- Rumi

"We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

- Marcel Proust

"To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The belly rules the mind."

- Spanish Proverb

"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."

- Ludwig van Beethoven

"Butter is the most delicate of foods among barbarous nations, and one which distinguishes the wealthy from the multitude at large."

- Pliny

"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art."

- La Rochefoucauld

"Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals & happiness."

- Thomas Jefferson

"It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade."

- Oliver Ellsworth

"As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country."

- William Howard Taft

"Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness."

- Thomas Jefferson

"The story of family farming underscores a legacy of sustainability."

- Amanda Zaluckyj

"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war."

- Norman Schwarzkopf

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."

- Buddha

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"All we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human wisdom."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them."

- Tahereh Mafi

"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"Age is not important unless you’re a cheese."

- Helen Hayes

"The older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana."

- Betty White

"Youth is a gift of nature, but age is a work of art."

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

"You’re not getting older, you’re getting wiser. Happy 40th birthday!"

- Unknown

"Life doesn’t come with a manual. It comes with a mother."

"Thursday’s child has far to go."

- Anonymous