"Thou shouldst not have been old till..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.
More by William Shakespeare
“I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!”
“Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.”
“Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.”
More on Wisdom
“A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.”
“I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.”
“To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.”
More on Age
“When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.”
“When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.”
“The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.”