Petrarch Quotes

Age considers; youth ventures.

There's still the part of me that wants to leap at every opportunity, but now there's the other side that says, 'Let's just wait a minute and see what happens.' That's intuition, and it comes with age and experience.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

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

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

When you're young, you don't have any experience - you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.

Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

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

I am not old but mellow like good wine.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.

When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer.

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 not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.