James Russell Lowell Quotes

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

The thing to remember about being young is you eventually get old.

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

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

You can't be 25 all the time.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.

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

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.

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

I used to love getting older.

I feel like you're only young once.

I am not young enough to know everything.

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

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

I am an aging Girl Scout.

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

Some age, others mature.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

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