Quotes About Misspent Youth

#1. To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.

Herbert Spencer

#2. A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

Francois Mitterrand

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. There's something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.

Patrick Carman

#6. Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Anita Brookner

#7. Not everybody benefits from a misspent youth.

Thomas Pynchon

#8. An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

John McCarthy

#9. Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.

Rob Lowe

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

James Thurber

#11. Any youth which is not misspent is, by definition, misspent.

Hermester Barrington

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Train your mind to see in all people, what they do not see in themselves. Begin to treat every person you come in contact with as the most important person in the world. Look at them with new awareness.

Bob Proctor

#15. True creativity often starts where language ends.

Arthur Koestler

#16. 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

#17. Jamie turned to Shaya. "Ever played that game, 'hit Granny with the polo mallet?

Suzanne Wright

#18. 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