Spotted Tail Quotes

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

I'm not an angry man.

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

You can be very wild and still be very wise.

When you've lived as long I've lived, you see things from a bigger lens, and you try to share that with the young guys coming up, including being patient.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

An elder statesman is somebody old enough to know his own mind and keep quiet about it.

Neither anger nor fury shall find lodging in their minds, and all their words and actions should be marked with calm deliberation.

An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow.

I think, with more experience, I'm probably wiser, calmer. You hope you'll be able to use your knowledge a bit better.

Something that comes along with age causes you to simmer a bit.

My frankness has got me into a lot of trouble. I try to temper it down now. As you get older, you get wiser.

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

Zeal should not outrun discretion.

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest.