A Quote by Herbert Spencer

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

Herbert Spencer

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Herbert Spencer
English - Philosopher
April 27, 1820 - December 8, 1903

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

Herbert Spencer

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

John McCarthy

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about other people's opinions. Be humble and you will never be disturbed. Remember St. Aloysius, who said he would continue to play billiards even if he knew he was going to die. Do you play well? Sleep well? Eat well? These are duties. Nothing is small for God.

Mother Teresa

In my misspent youth, I was risky.

Jason Statham

Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Anita Brookner

Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.

Rob Lowe

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

James Thurber

Miniature golf, like billiards, is a game of angles. And, like billiards, most of the fun is in pretending you know what the hell you're doing. The worse you do, the more you have to laugh.

Victor LaValle

Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.

David Mitchell

Whether it's my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I've worked with somebody or not.

Kevin Bacon

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

The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.

Paul Morphy

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

A graceful and blessed old age must have three elements in it: a happy retrospect, a peaceful present, and an inspiring future. And old age cannot have either one of these three if the youth has been wasted and manhood has been misspent.

Lyman Abbott

Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue.

Huey Long

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