A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get.
Now that I'm 91, as opposed to being 90, I'm much wiser. I'm much more aware and I'm much sexier.
In life, you're supposed to get wiser, so as an actor, even just through your own life experiences, you're already richer as a person and have more to pull on. And this job is great for the places it takes you to, the things it makes you interested in and the skills you get to learn.
Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.
Randalf the Wise indeed!I've worn wiser pairs of underpants!
Take your place in a wiser world of bigger motor cars.
If you can look at your failure and answer yes to the questions, "Did I give it my absolute best effort?" and "Have I learned something valuable?" then you have failed in the right way. By these standards, I've failed many times in my career. But every failure has made me stronger and wiser. Inevitably, success has always followed.
It's very common to think that we're always evolving, that we've changed so much from our younger selves, that within decades we've transformed into these different people. We like to think that. I feel in some ways that I am still so much my younger self. There are ways that I'm different: I feel like I'm wiser and kinder. But I think a lot of the impulses are still the same. I learned that.
All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.
When I look in the mirror, I see a gentleman getting a little older and a little wiser.
I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.
Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace; and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.
Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.
It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.
The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is. y
Most men appear wiser in their doubts than in their belief.
As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.