A Quote by Menander

It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.

Menander

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Bring Head Old Shoulders Some Wisdom Young

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Menander
Greek - Poet
342 BC - 292 BC

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Rabindranath Tagore

What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.

Thomas Browne

What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives it-self out as the wisdom of ages.

Edward Everett

And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.

Michel de Montaigne

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

Desiderius Erasmus

I'm always being told I've got an old head on young shoulders, which is probably due to the way my mum and dad brought me up.

Amy Macdonald

A lot of people say I've got an old head on young shoulders and I think that's because I'd been around boxing for a long time before I actually started doing it.

Callum Smith

Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on 'Doctor Who' when I was young, though I may be misremembering.

Philip Reeve

Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on Doctor Who when I was young, though I may be misremembering.

Philip Reeve

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

C. S. Lewis

It doesn't matter how young or old you are, and whatever jersey you wear, you realise the derby games prick up the hairs on the backs of people's necks.

Alun Wyn Jones

"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."

Charles Dickens

I don't write with this thing in the back of my head about carrying the weight of young black women on my shoulders.

Michaela Coel

People assume that I'm wiser than I am because I'm somewhat successful. Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. If you're dumb when you're young, you're going to be dumb when you're old.