Myrtle Reed Quotes

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

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

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

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.

What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more.

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.

I wish I knew what I know now before.

If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.

I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, 'Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?' I don't beat myself up. Instead, I say, 'I'm so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.'

What I learned on 'To Die For,' I learned over the years that followed, when some memory from the shoot would bubble up to the surface of my mind, and I could see it from a new perspective. I would usually cringe when that happened.

I remember some of the biggest mistakes I have made really, really well.

Going back, I wish I could have been in the moment a little bit more. I can't change it, but hindsight definitely makes me appreciative of the moment now - even if it's hard, or exhausting, it's all a part of the experience.

I made so many mistakes when I was younger.