Is Wasted On The Youth Quotes

#1. The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.

Roman Payne

#2. I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers.

John Cheever

#3. But thy strong Hours indignant work'd their wills, And beat me down and marr'd and wasted me, And tho' they could not end me, left me maim'd To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#4. I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.

Jeff Lindsay

#5. The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

#6. Age is wasted on the young. Just like youth.

Lev Grossman

#7. It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.

Olivia Hussey

#8. Youth is wasted on you if you can't manage a little trip!

Rasana Atreya

#9. Change, like youth, is purely wasted on the young.

Linda Ellerbee

#10. Youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. Youth is wasted on the young - beauty is wasted on the vain

David Seller

#12. Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

David Rakoff

#13. The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.

William Ellery Channing

#14. Seven actors have played Batman on the big screen, and if you can name all seven without reading any further, your youth has been wasted.

Grant Morrison

#15. Youth isn't wasted on the young, literature is.

Julia Claiborne Johnson

#16. My thought is that the average adjusted boy is, if anything, more humanly wasted than the disaffected. So let us go on to discuss his stupidity, his lack of patriotism, his sexual confusion, and his lack of faith.

Paul Goodman

#17. I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.

Wolf Kahn

#18. Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

Mark Twain

#19. You're at a tough age. You want to be treated like an adult, but you still want kid benefits." "I don't feel like a kid." "You're turning fourteen in a couple of months. Ever heard the expression: youth is wasted on the young?

Andrew Peterson

#20. Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.

Anthony Marra

#21. I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

Eric Bana

#22. What T. S. Eliot said: When all is said and done the writer may realize that he has wasted his youth and wrecked his health for nothing.

Jenny Offill

#23. It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw