My Misspent Youth Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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