Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“O, what shall I be at fifty, If I am then alive, I find the world so bitter, When I am but twenty-five?’[236]”

— Rhoda Broughton

“There were worse things than being young and foolish.”

— Cathie Pelletier

“It seemed like everything I knew at twenty-five morphed into everything I didn't know by twenty-six, when I was suddenly hit with the realization…

— Renée Carlino

“At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.”

— Rudyard Kipling

“Kindness and intelligence are the preoccupations of age. Being cruel and thoughtless is far more fascinating when you're twenty.”

— Ray Bradbury

“You know, from what I've seen, at twenty you know you're not going to be a rock star. By twenty-five, you know you're not…

— Douglas Coupland

“...at twenty-one or twenty-two so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible which forty sees are nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell…

— Booth Tarkington

“But who would hold up his head, if people judged us by what we were like at twenty?" 398”

— Hilary Mantel

“Wise individuals frequently say very little, but what they do say hits the mark. Such remarks often remain in the mind of the recipient…

— Donna Goddard

“And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.”

— William Wordsworth

“Age doesn't cure foolishness—it only tells everyone that someone is an old fool rather than a young one,”

— Connie Suttle