Quotes About Youth Wasted On The Young

#1. Current illusion is that science has abolished all natural laws.

Marshall McLuhan

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

Jeff Lindsay

#3. Advice, like youth, probably wasted on the young

Mary Schmich

#4. 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

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

Lev Grossman

#6. 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

#7. Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.

Lindsey Vonn

#8. Youth is just wasted on young people.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. It wasn't much of a plan, and already there had been mistakes.

David Nicholls

#10. Now we can come fearlessly right into God's presence, assured of his glad welcome when we come with Christ and trust in him.

Anonymous

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

Linda Ellerbee

#12. It was interesting. Isabelle thought, the children that chose you. Some come through your body; others came in cars in the middle of the night.

Erica Bauermeister

#13. We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself.

Esmeralda Santiago

#14. Youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

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

David Seller

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

David Rakoff

#18. In New York, one must collapse to be indolent.

Mason Cooley

#19. You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens.

Cal Ripken Jr.

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

Julia Claiborne Johnson

#21. Growing up in Rhode Island, my friends would have strung me up if I had been a Yankees fan.

Charlie Day

#22. 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

#23. There were some things that needed to be said even if the person you were saying them to didn't understand; words that must be released from their trapped place where their flapping to get out could cause internal damage.

Patti Callahan Henry

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

Mark Twain

#25. I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor.

Tim Daly

#26. Karma has a way of catching up with you, especially when you laughed in her face one too many times.

Jay Crownover

#27. 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

#28. I was a foreign correspondent in Berlin in the mid-'90s.

Rick Atkinson

#29. 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