Wisdom Quotes

"You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the birthday cake."

- Bob Hope

"You know you’ve aged when you read events you lived in a history book."

- Will Ferrell

"You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, 'See if you can blow this out.'"

- Jerry Seinfeld

"There is still no cure for the common birthday."

- John Glenn

"A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday."

- Erma Bombeck

""Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.""

- Mark Twain

""The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age.""

- Lucille Ball

""They tell you that you’ll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don’t tell you is that you won’t miss it very much.""

- Malcolm Cowley

""Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.""

- Maurice Chevalier

"The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything."

- Oscar Wilde

"Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."

- Tom Wilson

"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not."

- Mark Twain

"Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week."

- Joseph Addison

"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."

- Bruce Lee

"What youth learns, age does not forget."

- Danish proverb

"The habits of our youth accompany us in our old age."

- Latin proverb

"The schoolhouse bell sounds bitter in the youth and sweet in old age."

- Irish proverb

"May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far."

"As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point in the wrong direction."

"To live above with the Saints we love, Ah, that is the purest glory. To live below with the Saints we know, Ah, that is another story."

"Más cam nó díreach an ród, 's é an bothar mór an t-aicearra"

"Is fearr lúbadh ná briseadh"

"Níl saoi gan locht"

"Tús maith, leath na hoibre"

"Mol an óige agus tiocfaidh sí"

"Má chailleann tú uair ar maidin beidh tú á tóraíocht i rith an lae"

"Ní dhéanfaidh smaoineamh an treabhadh duit"

"Ní neart go cur le chéile"

"Ní thuigeann an sách an seang"