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| A worm is in the bud of youth and at the root of age. Cowper. | 1 |
| A young man negligent, an old man necessitous. | 2 |
| Action from youth, advice from middle age, prayers from the aged. Hesiod. | 3 |
| Age but tastes, youth devours. Dryden. | 4 |
| Better eat gray bread in your youth than in your age. Scotch. | 5 |
| Better poor, young and wise, than rich, old and a fool. German. | 6 |
| Better under the beard of the old than the whip of the young. Polish. | 7 |
| Consult with the old and fence with the young. German. | 8 |
| Crabbed age and youth cannot live together. Shakespeare. | 9 |
| Heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age. German. | 10 |
| He that corrects not youth controls not age. French. | 11 |
| If the young knew, if the old man could, there is nothing but would be done. Italian. | 12 |
| If you lie upon roses when young, you’ll lie upon thorns when old. | 13 |
If youth knew what age would crave,
It would both get and save. | 14 |
| Intemperate youth ends in an age imperfect and unsound. Denham. | 15 |
| In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood there is no such word as fail. Bulwer. | 16 |
| It is hard to put old heads on young shoulders. | 17 |
| It is less painful to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age. | 18 |
| No one so old that he may not live a year, none so young but he may die to-day. German. | 19 |
| Of young men die many, of old escape not any. | 20 |
| Old age is a tyrant which forbids the pleasures of youth on pain of death. Rochefoucauld. | 21 |
| Old boys have playthings as well as young ones, the difference is only in the price. Franklin. | 22 |
| Old head and young hand. | 23 |
| Old men for counsel, young men for war. | 24 |
| Old men go to death, but death comes to young men. | 25 |
| Old men when they scorn young, make much of death. | 26 |
| Old young and old long. | 27 |
| Reckless youth makes rueful age. Scotch. | 28 |
| The aged in council, the young in action. Danish. | 29 |
| The blunders of youth are preferable to the triumphs of manhood or the success of old age. Benjamin Disraeli. | 30 |
| The old effect more by counsel than the young by action. German. | 31 |
| The old for want of ability and the young for want of knowledge let things be lost. Spanish. | 32 |
| The old forget, the young don’t know. German. | 33 |
| The old have death before their face, the young behind their backs. German. | 34 |
| The old man at home and the young abroad lie after the same fashion. Spanish. | 35 |
| The old ones sing, the young ones pipe. | 36 |
| The old see better behind than the young before. German. | 37 |
| The warnings of age are the weapons of youth. | 38 |
| The young are slaves to novelty, the old to custom. | 39 |
The young man’s wrath is like straw of fire,
But like red hot steel is the old man’s ire. Byron. | 40 |
| The young may die, the old must die. German, Dutch. | 41 |
| They who would be young when they are old, must be old when they are young. | 42 |
| We expiate in old age the follies of our youth. Latin. | 43 |
| What youth learns age does not forget. Danish. | 44 |
| When old age is evil youth can learn no good. | 45 |
| Where the old are foolish the child learns folly. German. | 46 |
| Who follow not virtue in youth cannot fly sin in old age. Italian. | 47 |
| Who would be young in age, must in youth be sage. German. | 48 |
| Young folk, silly folk, old folk, cold folk. Dutch. | 49 |
| Young men soon give and soon forget affronts, old age is slow at both. Byron. | 50 |
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| Young men’s knocks, old men feel. | 51 |
| Young people must be taught, old ones be honored. Danish. | 52 |
| Young men are made wise, old men become so. | 53 |
| Young men should be learners when old men are actors. | 54 |
| Young men think old men are fools, and old men know young men to be so. | 55 |
| Youth is a garland of roses, age is a crown of thorns. Hebrew. | 56 |
| Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. Benjamin Disraeli. | 57 |
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