"PEARLS OF WISDOM"

       Reading has always been one of my pleasures...since my mom taught me to read when I was pre-school and dad gave me my first book...Bowser the Hound...in 1945.  Along the way, a line, a sentence, would seem to 'jump out' at me as something worth remembering.  In my 20's, I developed what I called my 'quote board'.  Actually, it was a 36" x 36" sheet of poster board.  The original has been long lost and now I write them in a notebook.
(These practices long before electronic storehouses.)  A couple of days ago while searching for something totally different, I happened upon some of these 'pearls of wisdom'.  There are others 'out there', waiting to be rediscovered.  For now, I pass these on as today's 'musing, meandering, and muttering'.  Seems that many of these 'sayings' could find a home within one of those categories.
Do you have some of your own favorite wisdom quotes . . .
     
     High ranking goes to Satchel Paige's inquiry (that is the source of the blog's name): "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?"

   He purportedly also advised,  "Don't look back; something might be gaining on you."

    ."There is something almost holy about the silence of early morning." Grumbach, Fifty Days of Solitude

    ."I ain't worth a darn first thing in the morning without a cup of coffee."  Bill Mauldin, Up Front

    ."There is a world of difference between a wise guy and a wise man."  Anon.

    "The step from knowledge to wisdom is the longest one in a person's life." George Sheehan, Going the Distance

    ."No one should be made to endure Christmas within at least one year of a personal catastrophe ." Howard Owen, Littlejohn

     ."Loneliness is the poverty of self; Solitude is the richness of self."  From May Sarton's Well

     ."Everything is different since it  changed."  Grumbach, Coming into the End Zone

     .Graffiti at the University of Michigan: "It often shows a fine command of the English language to say nothing."  cited in Grubach, Extra Innings

     ."Each age of life is new to us; no matter how old, we are still troubled by inexperience."   Ibid.

     ."I also have an aversion to sentimental displays, Mother's Day and Father's Day, and other such plastic celebrations."  Ibid.

     ." 'Dog' is 'God' spelled backwards."  Anon.

     ."Don't wish your time away, son." My dad...from the book of Life

     ."Sometimes we could all use a lesson in staying quiet."
            Kay Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman

       ."But sometimes the hardest things to see are the ones that are right up on you."   Ibid.

        ."Sometimes when something happens to us it may be  years before we know whether it was fortunate or disastrous."
       Gordon Livingston, And Never Stop Dancing

      ."When the map and the ground don't agree, then the map is wrong."  Livingston, Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart

     ."God blesses those who hustle and beg."  Anon.

     ."Not knowing the questions, it was easy for him to give the answers."  Dag Hammarskjold, Markings

     ."Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened."   Anon.

     ."A person at war within himself will often make casualties of those he loves."  The Rev. Dr. Fred Craddock

    ."When traveling at night, you can see only as far as the headlights shine; but you can make the entire journey that way."
        Craddock

    ."The man who views the world at 50 the same way  as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."  Muhammed Ali


   Tell me some of your own 'pearls of wisdom' if you care to add a response to today's post.
    In the meantime, 'how old would you be if you didn't know ...?"

      Satchel