“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.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Sept. 28, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care" by William Shakespeare?

William Shakespeare 699

English playwright and poet 1564–1616

Related quotes

“My native country was full of youthful promise; Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age.”

Washington Irving book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

"The Author's Account of Himself".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)

“Youth, large, lusty, loving—Youth, full of grace, force, fascination!
Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force, fascination?”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

Youth, Day, Old Age and Night
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“It is useless, or almost useless, to offer to Youth the treasures of experience gathered by Age. "When you are my age," says Crabbed Age, "you will know what I know, see as I see."”

Jane Ellen Harrison (1850–1928) British classical scholar, linguist and feminist

Nothing could be more profoundly false. History does not repeat itself. Evolution forbids. When you are my age, you will not know what I know, but something quite different.

p. 18 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011434878;view=1up;seq=30
Alpha and omega (1915)