Larry McMurtry Quotes

At least when you're young you're also stupid.

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

It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

He is a fool whose sheep runs away twice.

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

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

Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

Any damn fool can be spontaneous.

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

Fools are without number.

... a fool

Erskine is really a greater fool than I could have thought it possible to be and it is charity to give him that name.

With the rashness of ignorance the uninitiated dare to dabble in affairs of state.

So young and so wrong.

Stupidity took me pretty far.

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

Unfortunately, some of our greatest tribulations are the result of our own foolishness and weakness and occur because of our own carelessness or transgression.

I didn't sit outside the bank and plan. I just went in and ad libbed because I was so young. But I was smart enough to know I would absolutely get caught.

I can do with mistakes, but I can't deal with stupidity.

My worst and best qualities are rashness: the good part of it is due to youth, which is, of course, why I'm not a great conductor.

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

When you're young, you're cocky.

We've entrusted our lives to people who know nothing about life.

There's no glamour in stupid mistakes.

I'm just stupid and too headstrong.