“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.
“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”
— W. Somerset Maugham, book The Summing Up
Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 290
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