Youth Is Wasted On The Young Quotes

#1. 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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Jeff Lindsay

#4. 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

#5. Youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

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

David Seller

#7. 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

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

Mark Twain

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

Mary Schmich

#10. 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

#11. Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy you on the ground.

Stephen Coonts

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

Lev Grossman

#13. Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

Gertrude Atherton

#14. Youth is just wasted on young people.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. Only suffering grows big artists.

Irving Stone

#16. I've never had knickers or marriage proposals. Most of my fans are blokes serving life in jail, troubled kids, and a lot of gay guys. I never get the mid-20s, beautiful women fanbase.

Kelvin Fletcher

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

Linda Ellerbee

#18. You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.

Janet Evanovich

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

David Rakoff

#20. You have nothing to prove. Be the spiritual you and create like a physical fiend.

Esther Hicks

#21. I'm praying for you, Mary. I want you to live forever.

Truman Capote

#22. Being a 3-time Intercontinental champion doesn't make you a great wrestler, just like Larry King having 9 wives don't make him a great husband.

Jerry Lawler

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

Julia Claiborne Johnson

#24. America has the strongest, best-trained, best-led military force in the world, and we have failed them. Our military today is struggling in virtually every category that measures preparedness.

John McCain

#25. An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

Anthony Trollope

#26. I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.

Willie Aames

#27. 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