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Each passing year takes something from us.

Earth, receive an honored guest:
William Yeats is laid to rest.
Let the Irish vessel lie
Emptied of its poetry.

Yesterday I loved, today I suffer, tomorrow I die: but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

(Gestern liebt' ich,
Heute leid' ich,
Morgen sterb' ich:
Dennoch denk' ich
Heut und morgen
Gern an gestern.)

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.

Tomorrow I will live, the fool does say;
Today itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.

Careless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell
'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms.

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.

Oh roses for the flush of youth,
And laurel for the perfect prime;
But pluck an ivy branch for me
Grown old before my time.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

He has an old mind in a young body.

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old.

Reckless youth makes gowsty [dreary] age.

Youth riotously led breedeth a loathsome old age.

An idle youth, a needy age.

Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance.

If youth knew what age would crave,
It would both get and save.

The majority of men employ the first part of life in making the rest miserable.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts;
Old age is slow in both.

The conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

In youth we believe many things that are not true; in old age we doubt many truths.

The young do not know what age is, and the aged forget what youth was.

The sins of youth are paid for in old age. (Quae peccamus juvenes ea luimus senes.)

The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.

Whom the gods love dies young.

Whom the gods love die young no matter how long they live.

When the Greeks said, "Whom the gods love die young," they probably meant, as Lord Sankey suggested, that those favored by the gods stay young till the day they die; young and playful.

It takes a long time to become young.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

There's not a man in America who at one time or another hasn't had a secret desire to boot a child in the ass.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

The contempt of risk, and the presumptuous hope of success, are in no period of life more active than at the age at which young people choose their professions.

Youth doesn't take advice.

The one form of change we can always count on is the violent oscillation of intellectual fashion among the young.

Bewildered by a rapidly changing society, excessively fearful of becoming out of date, our leaders are increasingly turning to young people as guides and mentors.

Ah God! Had I but studied
In the days of my foolish youth.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!

I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us.

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
"Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies,
But keep your fancy free."
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Youth is quick in temper but weak in judgment.

Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope.

Beautiful is the bloom of youth, but it does not last.

Fortunate indeed is that man who was able to, maintain control of his carnal senses in the time of his youth.

Beauty like a shadow flies,
And our youth before us dies.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

The young leading the young is like the blind leading the blind.

Both were young, and one was beautiful.

Let us live then, and be glad
While young life's before us
After youthful pastime had,
After old age hard and sad,
Earth will slumber over us.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Ask the young; they know everything.

Youth is useless to a poor man.