Don Herold Quotes

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

Age whitens hairs, but not sin.

If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

There are three things against which the wise man guards: lust when young, quarrels when strong, and covetousness when old.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

I wouldn't go back and be 25 again for all the tea in China.

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.