WHO SAID "AH THE PITY YOUTH IS WASTED ON THE YOUNG

Posted by Brian from Shawnee March 10, 2004In reply to WHO SAID "AH THE PITY YOUTH IS WASTED ON THE YOUNG posted by ESC on March 10, 2004

George Bernard Shaw.

when and why did Shaw use it??

I have looked through ALL my quote books and can't find where, when and how Shaw said it. However, I did find a reference to the quote:

It's that second time you hear your love song sung,
Makes you think perhaps, that
Love like youth is wasted on the young.

The Second Time Around - 1960 song. Sammy Cahn (Samuel Cohen). Music by James Van Heusen.

I've found a lot of sites on the web that attribute that quote to GBS, but none that say when or under what circumstances he said it.

But a related paraphrasing is "Aw, youth is wasted on the wrong people!", by the grumpy old man on the porch in It's a Wonderful Life , when George doesn't kiss Mary quickly enough.