John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you.

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from quarrel; but every fool will quarrel

Be not moved alone by heated arguments and thoughts of revenge! These are for the young. We are young no longer; let us think well, and give counsel as old men!

To take offence is a great folly, and to give offence is a great folly - I know not which is the greater.

Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him.

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than discretion.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

The man who remains a fool even in advanced age is really a fool, just as the Indra-Varuna fruit does not become sweet no matter how ripe it might become.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

Don't get down on yourself that you can't run a 4K or dance all night long at a fun club. Give yourself a break.

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

You don't get to be old bein' no fool.