Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind.
A human life the treasure of the world cannot buy; nor can it redeem one which is misspent; nor can it make full and complete and beautiful a life which is dwarfed and warped and ugly.
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.
In my misspent youth, I was risky.
For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Those who misspent the government's money, they should be arrested and locked up.
Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.
Redeem the misspent time that's past,
And live this day as 'twere thy last.
The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.
There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.