James Nesbitt Quotes

Youth is wasted on the young.

You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.

Adults are obsolete children.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.

I suppose you always look back at how easier things were being young. There's always a shame that you're not as naive as you were.

When you're 20, you think you know a lot more than you do.

They always say 'youth is wasted on the young' - there's something to that.

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

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

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

Age merely shows what children we remain.

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

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

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.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

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

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

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

I've aged, but grown up? No.