Top 1200 Misspent Youth Quotes & Sayings

A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and frigidity of age; and in age we must labour to recall the fire and impetuosity of youth; in youth we must learn to respect, and in age to enjoy.

Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on. But the old orders should not be moved easily - certainly not at the mere whim or behest of youth. There must be clash and if youth hasn't enough force or fervor to produce the clash the world grows stale and stagnant and sour in decay.

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.

I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

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

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

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

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.

Empowering the youth is our responsibility, and the youth will be empowered with more investment on them.

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy.

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.

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.

I don't have a problem participating with the youth because the youth are our future.

Films do have a very big impact on the youth, but the youth do have the quality to differentiate what is right and what is wrong!

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

The youth are hurt. Our majority are youth, under 30. They have no hope. They don't get jobs.

We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.

There are some really good experiments with the youth offending service, joining up youth offending teams with the youth justice board, and good local authority and primary care trusts working together.

I definitely agree about the future of youth football being flag. There's just more and more evidence that the youth brain is particularly susceptible to the injury - thin necks, big heads. They're not as coordinated; they're not as skillful. For many reasons, I think the wave of the future is flag football for youth.

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.

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

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

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

Our youth are not failing the system; the system is failing our youth. Ironically, the very youth who are being treated the worst are the young people who are going to lead us out of this nightmare.

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought.

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

How glorious and near to the angels is youth that is clean. This youth has joy unspeakable here and eternal happiness hereafter. Sexual purity is youth's most precious possession. It is the foundation of all righteousness.

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

My goal, in general, is to make music for the youth that the youth can love. Not only just for the youth but almost be their voice. Just show that they can do whatever they want.

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

We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.

The younger generation is essentially idealistic. This applies to the Iranian youth as well. In addition, the youth in Iran face certain difficulties... the Iranian youth need more freedom. They are struggling for more freedom and democracy. This commands great respect.

Youth should be radical. Youth should demand change in the world. Youth should not accept the old order if the world is to move on.

People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!

It should be said that we are presently, and I believe unfairly, constrained from directly promoting cigarettes to the youth market...Realistically, if our Company is to survive and prosper, over the long term, we must get our share of the youth market. In my opinion, this will require new brands tailored to the youth market.

English youth is less politicised than French youth.

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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

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

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.

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

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.

This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.

People see rock and roll as, as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolised by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you, do you have any idea? I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture.

New Yorkers are obsessed with youth and eternal youth and then their careers and making money.

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.

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.

I like to speak with the youth, and I like to hear the youth. They always put me in difficulty. They tell me things that I haven't thought of, or that I've partly thought of. The restless youth, the creative youth, I like them!

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

In my misspent youth, I was risky.

And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.

Youth - the most significant aspect of youth is that it's full of energy.

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

What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.