A Quote by John McCarthy

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

John McCarthy

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John McCarthy
American - Politician
July 19, 1857 - March 30, 1943

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

Herbert Spencer

In my misspent youth, I was risky.

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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

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

There is no such thing as abstract Marxism, only concrete Marxism... The Sinofication of Marxism - that is, making certain that its manifestation is imbued with Chinese peculiarities - is a problem that must be understood and solved by the party without delay.

Mao Zedong

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

Yes, I talk about eating disorders and you know, excessive dieting and excessive exercising can be a sign of a mental illness... but when we talk about eating disorders... the issue is not the food or the exercise, the issue is a lack of healthy conception of self. That is the issue.

Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

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

One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the "ought" from the "is." My point of view is that this is impossible, this is a farce.

Jacques Monod

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Samuel Butler

A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely.

Helen Cresswell

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

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.

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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