Quotes & Sayings About Misspent Youth

We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness. — Paullina Simons

But the southwest wind of Spring brings also remorse. We catch the vague spirit of unrest in the air and we regret our misspent youth. — P.G. Wodehouse

To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth. — Herbert Spencer

A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old age cannot have either one of these three if the youth has been wasted and manhood has been misspent. — Lyman Abbott

Not everybody benefits from a misspent youth. — Thomas Pynchon

To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for his dissolute career and his desertion, I do give and bequeath the sum of one thousand dollars and the memory of his misspent youth. — Hallie Erminie Rives

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age. — James Thurber

Politicians obfuscate. It gets them re-elected. If no-one can understand what is going on, then the perception is that we need someone to guide us through the fog. Many people want to be led. A few people even think that they need to be led. — Sieg Pedde

Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend. — Rob Lowe

As part of my misspent youth I spent too much time in the sun and every few months I have to go and have some basal cell removed from my own craggy features. — John McCain

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has. — Anita Brookner

Any youth which is not misspent is, by definition, misspent. — Hermester Barrington

And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses ... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread. — Angela Carter

A certain skill at billiards is the mark of a gentleman, but to play too well is the sign of a misspent youth.
Lucien Fairchild — Mary Jo Putney

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. — John McCarthy

Which leads us to discuss if, deep down, Edgar Freemantle has decided that when the time comes, he's just going to - in the words of my misspent youth - cry fuck it and crawl in the bucket. — Stephen King

Who do you see
when you look at them?
You know the ones I mean:

the others, the olders,
the youngers, the ones
who are not you, not

like you or your friends,
who wear the labels
you give them until

they give them back,
saying, I believe these
belong to you. — James Howe

The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us. — Billy Graham

Everything we do in life affects someone else. — Jenn Bennett