Misspent Youth Quotes

• A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Time, Men

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [258]

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• Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

  Doris Day

  Wise, Time, Age

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Anita Brookner

  Time, Freedom, Youth

  Anita Brookner (1986). “The Misalliance”, Pantheon

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• There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

  J. B. Priestley

  Respect, Age, Youth

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• As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Funny, Time, Men

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pierre-Joseph Thoulier Olivet, Alexander WISHART (1750). “Thoughts of Cicero, on the following subjects, viz. I. Religion, II. Man ... XII. Miscellaneous thoughts. Published in Latin and French by the Abbé d'Olivet; to which is now added, an English translation, with notes. [By Alexander Wishart.]”, p.239

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

  Herbert Spencer

  Gambling, Play, Billiards

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• And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Class, Wife

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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

  James Thurber

  Age, Reputation, Arguing

  Recalled on his death, 2 Nov 1961.

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• 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

  Memories, Son, Careers

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• 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 old craggy features.

  John McCain

  Cells, Too Much, Months

  "Democratic National Convention Day Three: Delegates Make Gore- Lieberman Ticket Official". "The World Today" with Jim Moret, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2000.

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