All things Quote by Herodotus Download Open image “For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.” — Herodotus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare All things Blind Body Grow Old Grows Wit
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old. — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience? — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will.… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
One does not grow old until he believes he has more to look back on than he has to look forward to. — Maurice Chevalier Copy Share Image
Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do… — Theocritus Copy Share Image
A real friend ... exults in his friends happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto. — Barbara Bretton Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. — Homer Copy Share Image
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile,… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image