A Quote by Jeff Lindsay

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

Jeff Lindsay

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Comforting Like Like You May Sarcasm Some Us Wasted Young Youth

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Jeff Lindsay
American - Playwright
Born: July 14, 1952

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

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

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.

Mary Schmich

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

Linda Ellerbee

Youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

David Rakoff

Youth is just wasted on young people.

George Bernard Shaw

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

Mark Twain

Youth is wasted on the young. And it doesn't even matter if you sit a young person down and tell them, 'You're so healthy, take advantage of it before it's gone!' They still can't hear it.

Jim James

They always say 'youth is wasted on the young' - there's something to that.

Jennifer Aniston

People, you see... are ruthless and foolish. When they're young, in order to have money and power, they give up everything like health and youth. And when they get sick, become old, and have all the money and power... in order to find their health and youth again, they spend all of the wealth they've wasted so much energy and time to accumulate.

Jae Hee

I do not regret my youth and its beliefs. Up to now, I have wasted my time to live. Youth is the true force, but it is too rarely lucid. Sometimes it has a triumphant liking for what is now, and the pugnacious broadside of paradox may please it. But there is a degree in innovation which they who have not lived very much cannot attain. And yet who knows if the stern greatness of present events will not have educated and aged the generation which to-day forms humanity's effective frontier? Whatever our hope may be, if we did not place it in youth, where should we place it?

Henri Barbusse

None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, some remnant of it, some intangible evil or lovely thing or both, will remain with us, like the odor to a flower, or the smoothness to a piece of ivory. It is part of the immortality of youth.

Lizette Woodworth Reese

We're rewarding either the reality or the appearance of youth, which is why you have all these people in their fifties trying to act like they're seventeen. You know, it's great to be young. Be young. By all means, be young. But always remember that youth is also kinda dumb, and doesn't know a lot yet.