Time Quote by William Shakespeare

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

— William Shakespeare

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Age doesn't cure foolishness—it only tells everyone that someone is an old fool rather than a young one,”

— Connie Suttle

“You don't have to be old to be wise, but you have to be wise to get old.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“There was no fool like an old fool.”

— Karen McQuestion

“Aye, say thou fool? Then fool, good Sir, am I. But when thou sayest fool remember well That fools do walk in foolish company.…

— Ian Doescher

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is better to be an old soul than to be a young fool.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.”

— Lord Chesterfield

“The Duke is lamer than I am old, and I am shorter than he is cold, but it comes to you with some surprise…

— James Thurber

“Yet here poor fool for all my lore, I stand no wiser than before”

— Goethe

“...that in former ages they had been as wise as they are in this present, nay, wiser; for, said they, many in this age…

— Margaret Cavendish