Douglas Coupland Quotes

When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.

I was pretty immature, and some of it came from just wanting to have fun.

When you're young, you're stupid.

So young and so wrong.

Being young and dumb, honestly, you pick up some bad habits.

Sometimes when you're young and a little more immature, you can overdo things or not really have your legs under you.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.

Youth is wasted on the young.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be.

You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

I regret behaving badly when I was younger. I did not know any better at the time. The thing is that the incidents that I caused were not funny... Youth is wasted on the young. It is better to have the wisdom of an old man in a young body... I was a bit foolish and teased people, trying to be funny.

I'm just a young kid.

When you're young, you're cocky.

We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.

You're young and dumb and quick at the tongue.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.

I think maybe our team was too young and stupid to even know what was going on.

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

He's Black Council," I said. "Or maybe stupid," Ebenezar countered. I thought about it. "Not sure which is scarier." Ebenezar blinked at me, then snorted. "Stupid, Hoss. Every time. Only so many blackhearted villains in the world, and they only get uppity on occasion. Stupid's everywhere, every day.

I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.

You can only be stupid when you're young.