Young and Foolish

[timoc]

Where you ever Young and Foolish, I know I was and still am.....foolish that is.

Perhaps this song will remind you.

 

[bowmore]

Yes, that was why I married my first wife,

 

[Aunt Bea]

“I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.” - Mark Twain

 

[timoc]

Young and Foolish​

When I was about 9 or 10, my mates 'dared' me to walk across a 6" diameter pipe that went high across from one side to the other of a canal.
Full of bravado, I climbed up to the pipe and began moving across the pipe like a tightrope walker, then somewhere near the middle, I slipped and fell into the canal. I wasn't much of a swimmer, but I struggled to the bank and out of the water.
After that episode I learned to swim strongly.

 

[ohioboy]

When I Was One-and-Twenty
BY A. E. HOUSMAN

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
“Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free.”
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
“The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
’Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.”
And I am two-and-twenty,
And oh, ’tis true, ’tis true.

 

[Bella]

"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." ~ Harold MacMillan