The quote “Youth is wasted on the young” is attributed to George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), an Irish dramatist and author.
The quote is considered acerbic and wryly funny. It’s a perspective that comes with age, when simple things are harder to do and enjoy.
Shaw later said that young people are “brainless, and don’t know what they have; they squander every opportunity of being young, on being young”.
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