Brandon Sanderson Quotes

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

When I was younger, I took life much more seriously.

I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.

Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.

Old fools are greater fools than young ones.

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

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

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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.

I am an old geezer: a grandpa kind of a guy. I was born October 19, 1931. I have gray hair, a beard, and a little pot belly. I have two children who are over 30 years old and a sweet little granddaughter who is 11 years old.

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.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

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