Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care”
The Passionate Pilgrim: A Madrigal; there is some doubt about the authorship of this.
“That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.”
"Rip Van Winkle".
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (1819–1820)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 345.
“If youth knew; if age could.”
Se jeunesse savoit; si viellesse pouvoit.
Épigramme 4, Les Prémices, book 4
“Age is a sicknesse, and Youth is an ambush.”
Meditation 7
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
“The age of antiquity is the youth of the world.”
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.”
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Meditations Divine and Moral (1664)
