A Quote by David Mitchell

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

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David Mitchell
English - Novelist
Born: January 12, 1969

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

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.

Jack London

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

In my misspent youth, I was risky.

Jason Statham

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

Adam Lindsay Gordon

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

Anita Brookner

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

Herbert Spencer

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

John McCarthy

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Ambrose Bierce

Those who misspent the government's money, they should be arrested and locked up.

Jovenel Moise

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

Rob Lowe

Redeem the misspent time that's past, And live this day as 'twere thy last.

Thomas Ken

The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

Kay Ryan

Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

Abraham Verghese

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

James Thurber

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.

Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet

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