“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.
“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
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“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)
“Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Methuselah's Children
Methuselah's Children (1958)
“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.
“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)