Youth is presumptuous, old age is timid: the former aspires to live, the latter has lived.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1886)


Youth is presumptuous, old age is timid: the former aspires to live, the latter has lived.

Youth is presumptuous, old age is timid: the former aspires to live, the latter has lived.

Youth is presumptuous, old age is timid: the former aspires to live, the latter has lived.

Youth is presumptuous, old age is timid: the former aspires to live, the latter has lived.