Stephen Leacock Quotes

The one of the great sadnesses of any life is knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

I don't think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn't listen.

When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

The older you get, the better you realize you were.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

Age does not bring wisdom... but it does give perspective... and the saddest sight of all is to see, far behind you, temptations you've resisted.

Knowing what I now know I would never have done anything so fatuous; but then I never would have known what I know now had I not.

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

I'm a pretty young person, but I think you need a little life experience to actually say something.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

We do things in our past that we need to do at the time.

I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

I don't think I gave 'Wings' its due. I was young. I wanted to light the world on fire.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

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.

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.