Top 37 I Am Old Enough To Know Better Quotes
#1. The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the world in its own ways. Each edifies worlds and counter-worlds in its own mode. The polyglot is a freer man.
George Steiner
#2. It's hard to explain, but talking to them felt like stabbing and being stabbed.
John Green
#3. he'd fantasized about having nothing to do except lie on his bed and sleep and stare into space, but now those empty hours were here, and they were getting old amazingly fast.
Lev Grossman
#4. How old are you?"
"Old enough to know better, but still young enough to do it again.
J.M. Stewart
#5. As social beings we live with our eyes upon our reflection, but have no assurance of the tranquillity of the waters in which we see it.
Charles Horton Cooley
#6. I'm old enough to know better, but I'm still too young to care.
Wade Hayes
#7. Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.
Henry Miller
#8. To have birthed and bred her, beaten and raped her all for selling her to other scum. What god made such creatures as that and set them to prey on innocents?
J.D. Robb
#9. The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.
Michael Badnarik
#11. When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it.
Brigitte Bardot
#12. Old enough to know better, pissed enough not to care. (Jaden)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#13. I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.
Billy Zane
#14. How old are you? I asked her. "Old enough to know better." she said.
J.D. Salinger
#15. If we are going to love, we will be able to love someone else even if we never get what we want.
Michael DiMarco
#16. Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
Anonymous
#17. Friends?"
"Aye. We're friends now."
"Are we?"
"Of course we are!" he replied cheerfully - just like his name. "Why wouldn't we be friends?"
"Because you threw me into a tree?"
"To help you. You keep forgetting that part.
G.A. Aiken
#18. She was only eighteen."
"Old enough to vote, fuck, and know better,
Rachel Caine
#19. Don't tell me you don't know what love is When you're old enough to know better.
Elvis Costello
#20. When I was old enough to know better, I ate a bar of soap in the shape of the Muppets' Fozzie Bear, because I loved him so much I wanted to consume him, even if doing so made me ill. I didn't yet know the word 'foreshadowing.' Fozzie was the only first of many pop-culture icons I feel shaped by.
Emma Forrest
#21. So how old are you, baby?" Gorilla asks her.
"Old enough to know better," she says, looking at his arms.
"You like what you see?" he asks and touches her leg. "You and me should do it, later."
"Did you forget to evolve?" she asks, struggling to get off the couch.
Cath Crowley
#23. When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about Buddy Holly. And I loved pop bands that had absolutely no intellectual pretensions whatsoever. I loved the Monkees.
Tom Stoppard
#24. Things were different now, of course; those solitary hours he'd once savored had become a prison for him, a commonplace.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#25. My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
Oscar Wilde
#26. Don't listen when they scoff
That you are too old and I am young,
For I am old enough to know better
And you are young enough not to care.
Armistead Maupin
#27. When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.
Hesketh Pearson
#29. Why should you expect everything to work out successful? You're old enough to know better.
James Purdy
#31. My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade.
Roz Chast
#32. Old enough to know better and young enough to want to do it anyway.
Stormy Glenn
#33. Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#34. Old enough to know better, young enough to do it twice and see if it gets my rocks off,
Amelia Hutchins
#36. Harvard has something that manages, I think, to provide a lot of options for students, but still fairly prescriptive about the kinds of subjects that the courses ought to cover.
Louis Menand
#37. Old enough ... Such a dumb concept. Old enough for what? To drink, to fuck, to know better? What fathead was in charge of making those decisions?
Margaret Atwood
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