Top 30 Quotes About Misspent
#1. If you were to gather all the minutes wasted on insignificant, immaterial yik yak spent throughout the day and add them up, how much misspent time do you think you'd have? One hour? Two hours? Consider the sunk cost on that. It's unacceptable. One minute wasted is one minute too much.
Ari Gold
#2. To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.
Herbert Spencer
#3. Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Ambrose Bierce
#5. 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
#6. But here in the open air, this naked, solitary fiddle began a rhythm that played havoc with time, making patterns that set you to moving and told your heart it had been beating the wrong way all your misspent life.
Kristen D. Randle
#7. 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
#8. The day misspent,
the love misplaced,
has inside it
the seed of redemption.
Nothing is exempt
from resurrection.
Kay Ryan
#9. I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#10. There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
Sir Aubrey De Vere, 2nd Baronet
#11. Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
Anita Brookner
#12. Redeem the misspent time that's past,
And live this day as 'twere thy last.
Thomas Ken
#14. An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
John McCarthy
#15. Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.
Rob Lowe
#16. When men ruled over men, time was wasted and misspent.
Glenn Beck
#17. I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.
James Thurber
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.
Francois Fenelon
#22. Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd
Vanity makes beauty contemptible
Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
Abraham Verghese
#23. 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
#24. Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.
Henry Ford
#25. 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
#27. Redeem thy misspent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last.
Thomas Ken
#28. A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.
Jack London
#29. I have some knowledge of the time that may be misspent, clinging to fictions and supposing them truths.
Sarah Waters
#30. Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.
David Mitchell