Wasted On Youth Quotes

#1. Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

Sloane Crosley

#2. She believed in second chances, sometimes more than first chances, which were wasted on youth and indiscretion.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

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

Jeff Lindsay

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

Mary Schmich

#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. The song: Our youth is wasted We will not waste it Remember my name 'Cause we made history Na na na na, na na

E. Lockhart

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

Rasana Atreya

#10. Youth is just wasted on young people.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. Harvard Square could feel like a party on a warm night, full of energy and privilege and promise. Or it could seem like one of the bleakest places on earth
an icy, windswept rat maze where kids wasted their youth clawing over one another in a fatuous contest for credentials.

Geraldine Brooks

#12. I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring and marriage, and had in this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long.

Arthur Ransome

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

Linda Ellerbee

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

David Rakoff

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

Roman Payne

#18. 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

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

Julia Claiborne Johnson

#20. 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

#21. If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth?

Viet Thanh Nguyen

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

Mark Twain

#24. 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

#25. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

Meat Loaf

#26. 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

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

George Bernard Shaw