Misspent Youth Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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