“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”
William Shakespeare book The Passionate Pilgrim
The Passionate Pilgrim: A Madrigal; there is some doubt about the authorship of this.
“Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.”
Methuselah's Children (1958)
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“He was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
"Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington", The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches http://books.google.com/books?id=kqMDAAAAQAAJ (1867), ed. John Paul <br class="br">Cited by: William E. Phipps, Mark Twain's Religion https://books.google.nl/books?id=y8e2zLpDngQC&pg=PA18&dq=%22+He+was+ignorant+of+the+commonest+accomplishments+of+youth.+He+could+not+even+lie%22&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVpM31tsbMAhXFshQKHZ32Ci0Q6AEIJTAB#v=onepage&q=%22%20He%20was%20ignorant%20of%20the%20commonest%20accomplishments%20of%20youth.%20He%20could%20not%20even%20lie%22&f=false, Mercer University Press, 2003, p. 18<br>Richard Locke, Critical Children: The Use of Childhood in Ten Great Novels https://books.google.nl/books?id=38erAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA12&dq=%22+He+was+ignorant+of+the+commonest+accomplishments+of+youth.+He+could+not+even+lie%22&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVpM31tsbMAhXFshQKHZ32Ci0Q6AEIPTAE#v=onepage&q=%22%20He%20was%20ignorant%20of%20the%20commonest%20accomplishments%20of%20youth.%20He%20could%20not%20even%20lie%22&f=false, Columbia University Press, p. 12
“If youth knew; if age could.”
Henri Estienne (1528–1598) French printer
Se jeunesse savoit; si viellesse pouvoit.
Épigramme 4, Les Prémices, book 4
“[ An idle youth, a needy age. ]”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Age is a sicknesse, and Youth is an ambush.”
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
Meditation 7
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
“The age of antiquity is the youth of the world.”
Francis Bacon book The Advancement of Learning
The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book I, v, 8
(la) Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi.
Context: The age of antiquity is the youth of the world. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.
“No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
#116
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.”
Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672) Anglo-American poet
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Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)