"Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency." ― John Updike Topic(s): Wisdom More From John Updike "Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner." "The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop." "A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world." More In Wisdom "Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats."― Thomas Sowell "Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue."― James Buchan "A wholesome oblivion of one’s neighbours is the beginning of wisdom."― Richard Le Gallienne