We were all young and stupid.
libalp (b. 1970), U.S. poet/terrorist, in Original Stony Brook Web Site, 1995-96
I am not young enough to know everything.
J. M. Barrie (1860-1937), British playwright. Ernest, in The Admirable Crichton, act 1.
Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. John, in The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, ch. 11 (1922). Kismine replies, "How pleasant then to be insane!"
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
Anita Brookner (b. 1938), British novelist, art historian. Blanche Vernon, in The Misalliance, ch. 10 (1986).
Young men are apt to think think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773), English statesman, man of letters. Letter, 15 Jan. 1753 (first published 1774; repr. in The Letters of the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son, vol 2, no. 297, ed. by Charles Strachey, 1901).
The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist. The Stages of Life (1930; repr. in Collected Works, vol. 8, para. 774, ed. by William McGuire, 1960).
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
Vacation Bible School (1974), Bible: New Testament. 1 Timothy 5:23.