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English speaking countries | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Folk Sayings, Famous Quotes and Proverbs on Aging
A
o Age before beauty.
o Age can be a bad traveling companion.
o "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter" [Mark Twain].
o Age is honorable and youth is noble.
o The old forget the young don't know.
o "All diseases run into one, old age" [Ralph Waldo Emerson].
o "The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth." [Edmund Burke]
o As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
o As old as the hills.
o As the old cock crows, the young cock learns.
o As we live, so we learn.
B
o The best broths are made in the oldest pots (Meaning: Older women are worth their weight in gold.)
o The best is yet to come.
o Better die standing than live kneeling.
C
o Character building begins in infancy and continues until death.
o Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
D
o The devil knows many things because he is old.
o Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
o Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive.
o Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs (Equivalent: You can't teach an old dog new tricks.).
o Does life stop when a pen is out of ink?
E
o "Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old" [Jonathan Swift].
o Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn no other.
o Experience keeps no school, she teaches her pupils singly.
o Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. [Of Unknown origin]
o Experience is good, if not bought too dear.
o Experience is the best teacher.
o Experience is the mother of wisdom.
F
o A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
o Fretting cares make gray hairs.
G
o Gray hairs are death's blossoms.
o "Grow old along with me!/The best is yet to be./ The last of life, for which the first was made" [Robert Browning].
H
o He is as old as Mathusla.
o He lives long, who lives well. Or, He lives long that lives well.
o He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.
o He that lives on hope will die fasting.
o He who lives too fast, goes to his grave too soon.
o He who pleased everybody died before he was born.
o Hope is life.
I
o If you move old furniture it may fall to bits.
o If you wish good advice, consult an old man.
o Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.
o It's better to be happy than wise.
o It's better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees.
K
o "Keep on raging to stop the aging [Dale Carnegie].
L
o Life begins at forty.
o Life happens while you are making other plans.
o Life has its little ups and downs.
o Life is half spent before we know what it is.
o Life is not a problem to be solved, but a gift to be enjoyed.
o Life goes on, no matter what we try to do to it.
o Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.
o Life is not a dress rehearsal.
o Life is short and full of blisters.
o Life is too short to waste.
o Life is what you make it.
o The life of an old hat is to cock it.
o "Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. [Mark Twain].
o Live and learn.
o Live your own life, for you will die your own death.
o Lost time is never found again.
M
o A man is as old as he feels to be.
o Man wasn't born to suffer but to carry on.
o Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places.
o Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever -- but would rather not.
o "Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle" [Bob Hope].
o The more you study, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why study?
N
o Never say die (Meaning: Never give up).
o Never say never (Meaning: Never give up).
o Never too old to learn.
o No fool like an old fool.
o "None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm" [Henry David Thoreau].
O
o Off with the old and on with the new.
o "Old age is no place for sissies" [Bette Davis].
o "The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything" [Oscar Wilde].
o The old dog for the hard road and leave the pup on the path.
o Old friends and old wine and old gold are best.
o The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune.
o Once in a lifetime comes often, so be prepared.
o One learns from one's mistakes.
P
o Plan your life like you will live forever, and live your life like you will die the next day.
o Praise the ripe field not the green corn.
o Praise youth and it will prosper.
R
o The real dread of man is not the devil, but old age.
o "Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs" [Charles Dickens].
o The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated [Mark Twain].
S
o The schoolhouse bell sounds bitter in youth and sweet in old age.
o "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly and lie about your age" [Lucille Ball].
o Seldom is the last of anything better than the first.
o She's no spring chicken.
o The smaller the waistline the longer the life.
o The start of a journey should never be mistaken for success.
T
o That which does not kill you, makes you stronger.
o There is no fool like an old fool.
o There is no substitute for experience.
o There is wisdom in age.
o There are no endings, only new beginnings.
o "There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog and ready money." [Benjamin Franklin]
o There are two things certain in life -- death and taxes.
o There's life in the old dog yet.
o "There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine." [P.G. Wodehouse].
o They that live longest, see most.
o Time cures all things.
o Time flies.
o Time is a great healer.
o Time tries truth.
o Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age but they die young.
o Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
o Tomorrow is another day (Meaning: There's hope yet).
o Tomorrow is a new day.
o Too soon old, too late smart.
o "The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young" [Oscar Wilde].
o True love never grows old.
W
o A woman is as old as she admits.
o We are all on this earth, we can't get off so get on.
o We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
o "We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count" [Ralph Waldo Emerson].
o We live and learn.
o We must take the bad with the good.
o "We turn not older with years, but newer every day" [Emily Dickinson].
o What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
o "Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age" [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow].
o When one door closes, another door opens.
o When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
o Where there is life, there's hope.
o "Wisdom comes with winters." [Oscar Wilde]
o "Wish not so much to live long as to live well" [Ben Franklin].
o "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been" [Mark Twain].
o Women are like wine -- the older the better.
Y
o You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
o You can't put on old heads on young shoulders.
o You can't teach an old dog new tricks. Or, an old dog will learn no tricks.
o You cannot weld cake-dough to cast iron, nor a girl to an old man.
o You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
o You reap what you sow.
o Young men may die, old men must.
o "Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children" [George Bernard Shaw].
o Youth looks forward but age looks back.
o Young people don't know what old age is, and old people forget what youth was.
o Youth is wasted on the young.
o Youth sheds many a skin. The steed does not retain its speed forever.
o Youth will be served.
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French speaking countries | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Folk Sayings or Proverbs on Aging from French speaking countries
A
o As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wise at the same time.
B
o Better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.
o in English translation (literally): Better to bend than to break.
- Meaning: Adapt and survive.
- French original: Mieux vaut plier que rompre.
C
o The cart leads the horse; the young instruct the old [Said sarcastically].
o A colt may break, but an old horse you never can.
D
o The days follow one another and do not look alike.
o in English translation (Literally): A dappled sky and the beauty of a woman does not last long.
- French original: Ciel pommele et fille fardee ne son pas de longue duree.
E
o Everybody must live.
o Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.
F
o Few people know how to be old.
o Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age [Victor Hugo].
H
o He who lives long knows what pain is.
o in English translation (literally): Hope keeps one alive.
- English equivalent: Where there's life, there's hope).
- French original: L'espoir fait vivre.
I
o I prefer old age to the alternative [Maurice Chevalier].
o in English translation: It's not an old money one teaches to grimace.
- English equivalent: You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
- French original: Ce n'est pas a un view singe qu'on apprend a faire la grimace.
o It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen [Brigitte Bardot].
o If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
o in French translation: If the young only knew; if the old only could.
- Equivalent: Youth is wasted on the young.
- French original: Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait.
o in English translation (literally): It's in old kettles that one makes the best soup.
- English equivalent: Women get better with age.
- French original: C'est dans les vieilles marmites qu'on fait les meilleurs soupes.
o in English translation: It's never too late to do well.
- Meaning: It is never too late to mend.
- French original: Il n'est jamais trop tard pour bien faire.
o It takes a long time to become young [Pablo Picasso].
G
Greedy eaters dig their graves with their teeth.
M
o Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself.
o May and December never agree.
o Much memory and little judgment.
O
o The old dog barks not in vain.
o in English translation: The old friends and the old ecus are the best.
- French original: Le vieux amis et les vieux ecu sont les meilleurs.
o The old monkey gets the apple.
o An old rat is a brave rat.
R
o Reckless youth makes rueful age.
o Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and hos lost something.
S
o Some have bread who have no teeth left.
T
o There are toys for all ages.
o They that live the longest, see the most.
o To rise at five, dine at nine, sup at five, go to bed at nine, makes a man live to ninety-nine.
W
o What is learned in the cradle lasts to the grave.
o What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy [Voltaire].
o When all sings grow old covetousness is young.
o When goods increase the body decreases.
o When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age [Victor Hugo].
o When the devil grows old he turns himself into a hermit.
o Who lives will see.
o in English translation: With a young hunter, one needs an old dog.
- Meaning: The young need the old to guide them.
- French original: Un jeaune casseur, il faut un view chien.
o Wrinkled purses make wrinkled faces.
Y
o Yesterday is nostalgia.
o in English translation (literally): You can't teach old monkeys how to make faces.
- English equivalent: You can't teach an old dog new tricks.).
- French original: Ce n'est pas aux vieux singes qu'on apprend a faire des grimaces.
o Young men forgive, old men never.
o Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do.
o Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance.
o Youth must be served.
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Spanish speaking countries | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: Spanish Proverbs or Folk Sayings on Aging
B
o Be happy while you're living, for you will be a long time dead.
o The best mirror is an old friend.
o Between the beginning and the end there is always a middle.
o in English translation: A born-twisted tree never grows straight.
- English Equivalent: You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
Or, It's hard to break old habits.
- Spanish original: Arbol que nace torcido, janas su tronco endereza.
o The boy is father to the man.
D
o in English translation (Literally): The devil knows more from being old than from being the devil.
- Meaning: Don't underestimate experience, and/or Titles do not always describe a person's abilities and knowledge.
- Spanish original: Mas sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo.
E
o in ENGLISH translation: Even the wisest makes mistakes.
- Spanish original: Hasta el justo se equivoca.
o Everyone is the age of their heart.
o Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best.
F
o in English translation: (Literally) A friend and wine, are best old.
Meaning: Old friends like aged wine are the best.
- Spanish original: Amigo y vino, el mas antiguo.
o Fools look to tomorrow, wise men to tonight.
o in English translation: (Literally) For an old donkey, a new bridle.
- Meaning: No matter how well you dress, you can only hide your age so much.
G
o A good life defers wrinkles.
o Growing old is no more than another bad habit.
H
o He that is not gallant at twenty, strong at thirty, rich at forty, or experienced at fifty, will never be gallant, strong, rich or prudent.
o He who lives a long life must pass through much evil.
o He who made fun of the old man, laughed at first and cried afterwards.
o A hundred years from now we shall all be bald.
I
o in English translation: If you wish good counsel, consult an old man.
- Spanish original: Quien quiera saber, que compre un viejo.
o If you would live in health, be old early.
L
o A lazy youth, a lousy old age.
M
o A man who develops himself is born twice.
N
o in English translation: No one is born knowing everything.
- Spanish original: Nadie nace ensenado.
O
o in English translation: An old dog for a new hunter.
- Meaning: The old have experience, and so they are useful to the young.
- Spanish original: A cazador nuevo, perro viejo.
o in English translation: An old dog barks while lying.
- Meaning: An old dog knows that he has authority even if he is lying, so he doesn't need to waste energy in getting up.
- Spanish original: Perro viejo, ladra echado.
o The old for want of ability, and the young for want of knowledge, let things be lost.
o in English translation: The old house does not lack for leaks.
Meaning: Old people have lots of problems.
- Spanish original: Al jacal viejo no le faltan goteras.
o The old man at home, and the young abroad, lie after the same fashion.
o An old ox makes a straight furrow.
P
o A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
o Put a nice face to the bad times (Meaning: Be positive even in bad situations).
S
o Sense comes with age.
o Skill is better than strength.
o So wise, so young, they say, do never live long.
T
o Threatened men live long.
o Though you are a prudent old man, do not despise counsel.
o The trees with the most leaves will not necessarily produce juicy fruit.
W
o When an old man cannot drink, prepare the grave.
o When the child cuts its teeth, death is on the watch.
o in English translation (literally): When touched -- touched.
- Equivalent: When your time is up, it's up.
- Spanish original: Cuando toca, toca.
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German speaking countries | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: German Proverbs, Folk Sayings and Famous Quotes on Aging
A
o in English translation: Age is a sickness from which everyone must die.
o in English translation: Age is a troublesome guest.
o in English translation (Literally): Age does not protect from foolishness.
- English equivalent: No fool like an old fool.
- German original: Alter schutzt vor torheit nicht.
D
o in English translation (literally): Declared dead live longer.
- English equivalent: There's life in the old dog yet.
- German original: Totgesagte leben langer!
E
o in English translation: Even autumn still has nice days.
- English equivalent: You're as young as you feel.
o in English translation: The egg wants to be smarter than the hen.
F
o in English translation: The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
o in English translation: The final shirt has no pockets.
- Equivalent: You can't take it with you.
o in English translation (Literally): From damage one become intelligent.
- English equivalent: One learns from one's mistakes.
- German original : Aus Schaden wird man klug (Darum ist einer nicht genug.).
G
o in English translation: A glutton young, a beggar old.
H
o in English translation: He who does not honor age does not deserve age.
o in English translation: Humility, this beautiful virtue, honors the age and the youth.
- German original: Demut, diese schone Tugend, ehrt das Alter und die Jugend.
I
o in English translation: If an old man lacks knowledge, at least he has experience.
o in English translation: If the devil can't come himself, he sends an old woman.
o in English translation: It is good to grow old in a place where age is honored.
L
o in English translation: "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards" [Kierkegaard].
M
o in English translation: "A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is" [Schopenhauer].
o in English translation: Many men would rather let themselves be beaten to death than to pass between two old women.
N
o in English translation (Literally): New brooms clean well but the old one knows the corners.
- English equivalent: New things may look good on the first glimpse, but old things can still be better on the second look. Or, experience counts.
- German original: Neue besen kehren gut aber der alte kennt die ecken.
o in English translation: Nothing good will come from an old man who still wants to dance.
o in English translation (Literally) Old foxes go with difficulty into the trap.
- Meaning: The old and wise are less likely to get tricked.
- German original: Alte fuchse gehen schwer in die falle.
o in English translation: An old man can be outrun but not out counseled.
o in English translation: An old man can see backward better than a young one can see forward.
o in English translation: An old man loved is winter with flowers.
o in English translation: An old man who takes a young wife invites Death to the wedding.
o in English translation: The old one who is loved, is winter with flowers.
o in English translation (literally): On old horses you learn how to ride.
- Meaning: Older women can you a lot in bed.
- German original: Auf alten pferden lernt man reiten.
o in English translation (literally): On old pots you learn cooking
- Meaning: Older women can teach you a lot in bed.
- German original: Auf alten pfannen lernt man kichen.
o in English translation: One father can better nourish ten children than ten children can nourish one father.
P
o in English translation: The parents' death is often the children's good fortune.
o in English translation: Parents love their children more than to children their parents.
o A person has learned much who has learned how to die.
T
o in English translation: Time is a great healer.
o in English translation (literally): Trees do not grow into the sky.
- Meaning: There are natural limits to things.
- German original: Baume wachsen nicht in den Himmel.
o in English translation: To meet old women first thing in the morning means bad luck; young people, good luck. Old people can dye their hair, but they can't change their backs.
W
o in English translation: The way is the goal.
- English equivalent: Stay in the moment.
o in English translation (literally): What little Hans didn't learn, grown-up Hans will never learn.
- English equivalent: You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
- German original: Was Hanschen nicht lernte, lernt Hans nimmermehr.
o in English translation: With old men take counsel.
Y
o in English translation: A young woman with an old husband is a wife by day and a widow by night.
o in English translation: Youth rises, age falls.
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Around the World | | Date: Centuries-old | Notes: The following list of proverbs about aging was taken from the book, "Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages" classified by subject, arranged alphabetically, compiled by Robert Christy (New York: Putnam's Sons, 1887).
AGE
1. Age is a sorry traveling companion. Dan.
2. Age is venerable in man and would be in
woman if ever she became old. Punch.
3. Age makes many a man white but not better. Dan.
4. Few persons know how to be old.
5. Good-morrow, spectacles; farewell, lasses. Fr.
6. Gray beard and red lip seldom remain good friends. Ger.
7. He that would be long an old man must begin early to be one. Spectator.
8. He that would be old long must begin betimes.
For.
9. He wrongs not an old man who steals his supper from him.
10. In telling the age of another, multiply by two;
in telling your own, divide by two. Punch.
11. It has been a great misfortune to many a one
that he lived too long.
12. It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
13. It is the common failing of old men to attribute all wisdom to themselves. Fielding.
14. Let me play the fool.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles
come. Shaks.
15. Most old men are like old trees, past bearing
IS themselves, will suffer no young plants to flourish
beneath them. Pope.
16. No man is so old but thinks he may live an-
other day. Pythagoras.
17. No old age agreeable but that of a wise man.
18. Old age brings companions with it. Ger.
19. Old age comes uncalled. Ger.
20. Old age is a troublesome guest. Ger.
21. Old age is honorable.
22. Old age has deformities enough of its own, do
not add the deformity of vice. Cato.
23. Old age itself is a disease. Terence.
24. Old age, though despised, is coveted by all.
25. Old men are twice children.
26. Old men do not readily form friendships because they are not easily susceptible of pleasure. Aristotle.
27. Old men who have loved young company
have been of long life. Bacon.
28. Old people see best in the distance. Ger.
29. Poverty and age suit very ill together. Burke.
30. Save for the man on the white horse. {For old age,)
31. Secure the three things, virtue, wealth and
happiness, they will serve as a staff in old age. Tamil.
32. The old have every day something new. Ger.
33. The old man who dances furnishes the devil
fine sport Ger.
34. The old maid who is loved is winter with flowers. Ger.
35. The old man's counsel is half deed. Ger.
36. The old man's staff is the rapper at death's
door.
37. The oldest man that ever lived died at last.
Gaelic.
38. 'Tis late ere an old man comes to know he is old.
39. What the old man does is always right. Hans Andersen.
40. When an old man cannot drink prepare his grave. Sp.
41. When an old man dances he raises a great dust. Ger.
42. When an old man plays tenpins the balls make a great clatter. Ger.
43. When men grow old they become more foolish and more wise. Fr.
44. When old men are not upright they teach
their sons and grandsons to be rogues. Chinese.
45. Who honors not age is unworthy of it.
Time.
1. A little time may be enough to hatch a great
mischief.
2. A hundred years hence we shall all be bald.
sp.
3. A hundred years is not much, but never is a
long while. Fr,
4. A thousand years hence the river will run as
it did.
5. All the treasures of the earth would not bring
back one lost moment. Fr,
6. An hour after twelve is just one whatever you
do. Ger.
7. As good have no time as make no good use
of it.
8. Better to take time. Latin.
9. Every scrap of a wise man's time is worth
saving.
10. Everything has its time. Par.
11. Everything has its time and that time must be
watched.
12. He is behind the times; old fashioned,
13. He that has most time has none to lose.
14. He that hath time and looketh for more,
loseth time.
15. He who gains time gains everything. Bea.
16. Hour by hour time departs. Ital.
17. I have lost a day. {Perdidi diem.) Titus.
18. If the time don't suit you, suit yourself to the
time. Turk.
19. If time be of all things most precious, wasting
time must be the greatest prodigality. Franklin.
20. In less than a thousand years we shall all be
bald. Sp.
21. In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
Shaks.
22. It is all one a hundred years hence.
23. It is good to be in good time, you know not
how long it will last.
24. It is time enough to set when the oven comes
dough.
25. Il is time enough to take off your hat when
you see the man. Dan,
26. "I've lost a day!" the prince who nobly cried,
Had been an emperor without his crown.
Young,
27. It will be all the same an hundred years
hence.
28. Lost time never returns. Ger,
29. Lost time and opportunities can never be re-
covered.
30. Lost time is never found again, and what we
call time enough always proves little enough.
Franklin,
31. Man cannot buy time. Ger,
32. No man can tether time or tide. Bums,
33. Once in every ten years every man needs his
neighbor.
34. Once in ten years one man hath need of an-
other.
35. Other times, other counsels. Por,
36. Other times, other folks. Dan,
37. Other times, other manners. Fr.
38. Our time runs on like a stream ; first fall the
leaves and then the tree. Dutch,
39. Suit yourself to the times. Ger,
40. Take time by the forelock.
41. Take time for deliberation, haste spoils every-
thing. Statius,
42. Take time to be quick.
43. Take time when time is, for time will away.
44. The best preacher is lime. Get.
45. The complaint of the present times is the gen-
eral complaint of all times.
46. The crutch of time does more than the club of
Hercules.
47. "The good old times/' all times when old
are good. Byron,
48. The good time comes but once. Itai,
49. The greatest expense we can be at is that of
our time.
50. The heavens are just, and time suppresseth
wrong. Shaks,
51. The past is for wisdom, the present for ac-
tion, but for joy the future.
52. The time of life is short,
To spend that shortness basely 'twere too
long. Shaks,
53. The time of the prince is the property of the
people. Gibbon,
54. The time to come is no more ours than the
time past.
55. There is a time for all things.
56. There is a time to fish and a time to dry nets.
Chinese,
57. There is a time to jest and a time when
jests are unreasonable. Dan Quixote,
58. There is no appeal from time past. Ital,
59. There is no better counsellor than time.
Greek,
60. There is no hand to catch time. Bengalese.
61. There is nothing more precious than time and
nothing more prodigally wasted.
62. There's nothing more precious nor time.
63. They that make the best use of their time have
none to spare.
64. Time and opportunity are no man's slave.
Ger.
65. Time and the hour are not to be tied with a
rope.
66. Time and the hour run through the roughest
(or longest) day.
67. Time and tide for no man bide.
68. Time and tide wait for no man.
69. Time and words can never be recalled,
70. Time at last sets all things even, Byron,
71. Time brings everything to those who can wait
for it. Ger,
72. Time brings roses. Ger, Dutch,
73. Time covers and discovers everything. Ger,
74. Time discovers truth. Seneca,
75. Time dresses the greatest wounds. Ger,
76. Time devours all things.
77. Time does not bow to you, you must bow to
time. Russian,
78. Time enough is little enough.
79. Time flies away without delay.
80. Time flies on restless pinions, constant never,
Be constant and thou chainest time forever.
Schilier,
81. Time gained, much gained. Dutch.
82. Time heals all things.
83. Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.
84. Time is anger's medicine. Ger,
85. Time is an inaudible file.
86. Time is an unpaid advocate. Ger.
87. Time is a true friend to sorrow. Wordsworth
88. Time is generally the best doctor. Ovid.
89. Time is God's and ours. Dut
89. Time is God's and ours. Dutch.
90. Time is money. Dutch, Turk.
91. Time is not tied to a post like a horse to a
manger. Dan,
92. Time is precious but truth is more precious
than time. Bea.
93. Time is the best counsellor (or preacher). Ger.
94. Time is the greatest innovator. Bacon.
95. Time is the herald of truth. Cicero.
96. Time is the rider that breaks youth.
97. Time makes hay. Ger.
98. Time misspent is not lived but lost. Fuller.
99. Time, motion, and wine cause sleep. Ovid.
100. Time moves slowly to him whose employment
IB to watch its flight. Dr. Johnson.
101. Time passes like the wind. For.
102. Time past never returns, a moment lost, lost
f arc V e r . Dr. Johnson.
103. Time reveals all things.
104. Time rolls his ceaseless course. Scott.
105. Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides;
Wbo cover faults at best shame them derides.
Shahs
106. Time stays not at the fool's leisure.
107. Time stoops to no man's lure. Swinburne.
108. Time subdues all things. Arabian Nights,
109. Time tint is ne'er to be found,
110. Time tries a'.
111. Time which obliterates the fictions of opin-
ions confirms the decisions of nature. Cicero,
112. Time works wonders. Ger,
113. 'Tis time, conversation and business that dis-
cover what a man is.
114. Tis time to yoke when the cart comes to the
oxen.
115. To him that does everything in its proper
time one day is worth three.
116. To save time is to lengthen life.
117. We are all the balls of time, tossed to and
from, from the plough unto the throne and back
again. Mas singer,
118. We take no note of time but from its loss.
Young,
119. What greater crime than loss of time.
120. What reason and endeavor cannot bring
about time often will.
121. Who has no time yet waits for time, comes
to a time of repentance. Sp,
WRINKLE
1. An old wrinkle never wears out.
2. And wrinkles the d d democrats won't
flatter. Byron.
3. Wrinkles disfigure a woman less than ill
nature. Dupuy.
YOUTH
1. A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.
2. A young man seldom makes much money
who is out of his time before twenty.
3. A youth in which a single aim governs life
early arrives at the harvest.
4. All of us must be drunk once, youth is drunkenness without wine. Goethe.
5. Almost everything that is great has been done
by youth. Bea.
6. He is young enough who has health, and he
is rich enough who has no debts. Dan.
7. The young are not always with their bow bent.
8. The young will sow their wild oats, but prevent it if possible.
9. The youth of a nation are the trustees of
posterity. Bea.
10. There are more lamb skins than sheep skins,
{Meaning that youth is exposed to many dangers).
M. Greek.
11. There come just so many calf-skins to market
as cow skins, {Meaning youth is surrounded by dangers). Ger. Dutch.
12. There die as many lambs as wethers. {Same meaning as last above?) For.
13. There is a learning time in youth which, suffered to escape and no foundation laid, seldom returns. Clarissa.
14. To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods. Bea.
15. We shall never be younger.
16. Youth and white paper take any impression.
17. Youth comes but once in a lifetime. Longfellow.
18. Youth is life's seed lime. Holmes.
19. Youth is the season of hope.
20 Youth is gay and holds no society with grief.
Aristotle.
21. Youth is the seed time of life: an unseeded
youth, a needy age.
22. Youth may stray yet return at last. Fr.
23. Youth ne'er casts for peril.
24. Youth should be a saving's bank.
25. Youth will have its swing.
26. Youth's sorrows like April showers are transitory.
YOUTH, AGE
1. A worm is in the bud of youth and at the root
of age. Cowper.
2. A young man negligent, an old man necessitous.
3. Action from youth, advice from middle age,
prayers from the aged.
4. Age but tastes, youth devours. Dry den
5. Better eat gray bread in your youth than in
your age. Scotch.
6. Better poor, young and wise, than rich, old
and a fool. Ger.
7. Better under the beard of the old than the
whip of the young. Polish.
8. Consult with the old and fence with the young.
Ger.
9. Crabbed age and youth cannot live together.
Shaks.
10. Heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age. Ger.
11. He that corrects not youth controls not age. Fr.
12. If the young knew, if the old man could,
there is nothing but would be done. Ital.
13. If you lie upon roses when young, you'll lie
upon thorns when old.
14. If youth knew what age would crave,
It would both get and save.
15. Intemperate youth ends in an age imperfect
and unsound.
16. In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves
for a bright manhood there is no such word as fail.
Bulwer.
17. It is hard to put old heads on young shoulders.
18. It is less painful to learn in youth than to be
ignorant in age.
19. No one so old that he may not live a year,
none so young but he may die to-day, Ger.
20. Of young men die: many, of old escape not any.
21. Old age is a tyrant which forbids the pleasures
of youth on pain of death.
22. Old boys have playthings as well as young
ones, the difference is only in the price. Franklin.
23. Old head and young hand.
24. Old men for counsel, young men for war.
25. Old men go to death, but death comes to
young men.
26. Old men when they scorn young, make much
of death.
27. Old young and old long.
28. Reckless youth makes rueful age. Scotch.
29. The aged in council, the young in action.
Dan.
30. The blunders of youth are preferable to the
triumphs of manhood or the success of old age.
31. The old effect more by counsel than the young
by action. Ger.
32. The old for want of ability and the young for
want of knowledge let things be lost. Sp.
33. The old forget, the young don't know. Ger.
34. The old have death before their face, the
young behind their backs. Ger.
35. The old man at home and the young abroad
lie after the same fashion. Sp.
36. The old ones sing, the young ones pipe.
37. The old see better behind than the young before. Ger
38. The warnings of age are the weapons of youth.
39. The young are slaves to novelty, the old to custom.
40. The young man's wrath is like straw of fire.
But like red hot steel is the old man's ire. Byron.
41. The young may die, the old must die. Ger., Dutch.
42. They who would be young when they are old,
must be old when they are young.
43. We expiate in old age the follies of our youth.
Latin.
44. What youth learns age does not forget. Dan.
45. When old age is evil youth can learn no good.
46. Where the old are foolish the child learns
folly. Ger.
47. Who follow not virtue in youth cannot fly sin
in old age. Ital.
48. Who would be young in age, must in youth be
sage. Ger.
49. Young folk, silly folk, old folk, cold folk. Dutch.
50. Young men soon give and soon forget affronts, old age is slow at both. Byron.
51. Young men's knocks, old men feel.
52. Young people must be taught, old ones be
honored. Dan.
53. Young men are made wise, old men become so.
54. Young men should be learners when old men
are actors.
55. Young men think old men are fools, and old
men know young men to be so.
56. Youth is a garland of roses, age is a crown of
thorns. Hebrew.
57. Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old
age a regret. Bea.
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167. A la chandelle la chevre semble demoiselle. (Fr.) Prov.
By candle-light the goat looks like a young lady.
550. Brevis ipsa vita est, sed longior malis. (L.) Prov. Pub. Syr. 1
Life is short indeed, but troubles are shorter.
774. Communibus annis. (L.) On an average of years. One
year with another.
780. Complectamur illam et amemus: plena est voluptatis si ilia
scias uti . . . jucundissima est aBtas devexa, non tamen
pra^ceps : et illam quoque in extrema regula, stantem,
judico habere suas voluptates, aut hoc ipsum succedit in
locum voluptatum, nullis egere. (L.) Sen. Ep. 12. ?
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with
pleasure, if you know how to use it. The gradually (I do
not say rapidly) declining years are amongst the sweetest
in a man's life ; and, I maintain, that even where they
have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasures
still ; or else, this takes the place of pleasures, to need them no more.
969. Das Alter is nicht triibe, weil darin unsere Freuden,
sondern weil unsere Hoffnungen aufhoren. (G.) Jean
Paul 1 Old - age is not sad because our pleasures, but
because our hopes, have then ceased.
970. Das Alter ruacht nicht kinclisch, wie man spricht, es findet
uns nur noch als wahre Kinder. (G.) Goethe, Faust.
Age does not make us childish, as people say, it only
finds us as children after all.
980. Da spatium tenuemque moram, male cuncta ministrat
Impetus. (L.) Statius Theb. 10, 703.
Give time and some delay, for passionate haste
Will ruin all.? Ed.
1012. Defectio virium adolescentium vitiis efficitur ssepius quam senectutis. (Z.) Cic. Sen. 9, 29. Decay of strength is
more commonly the result of youthful excesses than any
real fault in old age itself.
1194. Di nos quasi pilas homines habent. (L.) Plaut. Capt.
Prol. 22. ? The gods treat us mortals like so many balls
to play with.
1280. Dum loquor, hora fugit. (Z.) Ov. Am. 1, 11, 15.
While I speak time flies.
1720. Forma bonum fragile est : quantumque accedit ad annos
Fit minor : et spatio carpitur ipsa suo.
Et tibi jam cani venient, formose, capilli
Jam venient ruga?, qua? tibi corpus arent.
Jam molire animum, qui duret, et adstrue formse,
Solus ad extremos permanet ille rogos.
(L.) Ov. A. A. 2, 113.
Fragile is beauty.
Fragile is beauty : with advancing years
'Tis less and less and, last, it disappears.
Your hair too, fair one, will turn grey and thin ;
And wrinkles furrow that now rounded skin ;
Then brace the mind, thus beauty fortify,
The mind alone is yours, until you die. Ed.
2034. II a mange* son pain blanc le premier. (Fr.) He Jias eaten
his white bread first. He had the best of his life first.
2096. II n'a pas l'air, mais la chanson. (Fr.) Prov. He has
not the tune, but the words. He has not the shadow,
but the reality.
2523. La feuille tombe a terre, ainsi tombe la beaute". (Fr.)
Breton Prov. The leaf falls to earth, and so does beauty.
2532. L'age insensiblement nous conduit a la mort. (Fr.)
Racan, Bergeries. Old age insensibly leads us towards
death.
2543. La jeunesse vit d'esperance, la vieillesse de souvenir. (Ft.)
Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance.
2623. Laudatis antiqua, sed nove de die vivitis. (L.) Tert. ap.
6. You praise the old ways, but you live every day in
the new fashion.
2664. Le diable dtait beau quand il e'tait jeune. (-V.) Prov.
The devil was good-looking when he was young.
3690. On perd tout le temps qu'on peut mieux employer. (V.)
Rouss. Time is so much lost which might be better
employed.
3702. On voit mourir et renaitre les roses ; il n'en est pas ainsi de nos beaux jours. (Fr.) Charleval, 17th cent. Roses
die and bloom again, not so loith the spring-time of our
days.
3708. Opinionum enim commenta delet dies, naturae judicia confirmat. (L.) Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 5. Time effaces all
fancies and delusions, and confirms the judgments of
nature.
5354. Wie die Alten sungen, so zwitschern auch die Jungen. (G.)
Prov. As the elders sing, so will the young ones twitter.
Like father, like son.
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A bad thing never dies.
A long life hath long miseries.
A man may be young in years and yet old in hours.
A young man negligent, an old man necessitous.
A young prodigal, an old mumper.
A young saint, an old devil.
A young serving-man, an old beggar.
A young trooper should have an old horse.
A young twig is easier twisted than an old tree.
A young whore, an old saint.
A young woman married to an old man, must behave like
an old woman.
All the joys in the world cannot take one grey hair out of
our heads.
An hour may destroy what an age was a building,
An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.
An old ape hath an old eye.
An old courtier, a young beggar.
An old dog can't alter his way of barking.
An old fox needs not to be taught tricks.
An old fox understands a trap.
An old goat is never the more reverend for his beard.
An old man, if he be a trifler, is every one's scorn.
An old man is a bed full of bones.
An old man never wants a tale to tell.
An old ox makes a straight furrow.
An old ox will find a shelter for himself.
An old physician, and a young lawyer.
An old whore's curse is a blessing.
An old wrinkle never wears out.
He lives long that lives till all are weary of him.
He lives longest that is awake most hours.
He liveth long that liveth well.
He that is not handsome at twenty, strong at thirty, wise
at forty, rich at fifty, will never be handsome, strong,
wise, or rich.
If you lie upon roses when young, you will lie upon thorns
when old.
In the short life of man, no time can be afforded to be lost.
In the time of mirth take heed.
In things that must be it is good to be resolute.
In time comes he, whom God sends.
It happens in an hour that comes not in an age.
It is as natural to die as to be born.
Long life hath long misery.
Make the young one squeak and you'll catch the old one.
Old age is not so fiery as youth, but when once provoked
cannot be appeased.
Old age though despised, is coveted by all men.
Old bees yield no honey.
Old birds are not caught with chaff.
Old buildings may fall in a moment.
Old cats may lap as well as young children.
Old custom without truth is but an old error.
Old dogs bark not for nothing.
Old foxes want no tutors.
Old hosts give entertainment to sharks.
Old maids lead apes in hell.
Old men and travelers may lie with authority.
Old men are soon angry.
Old men are twice children.
Old men feel young men's knocks.
Old men go to death, but death comes to young men.
Old men have one foot in the grave, and many young men too.
Old men remember such things as they delighted in when young.
Old men that dandle madams hug death.
Old men think themselves cunning.
Old women's gold is not ugly.
Once a whore and ever a whore.
One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.
One year of joy, another of comfort, the rest of content,
make the married life happy.
Pain past is pleasure.
Pains are the wages of ill pleasures.
She that hath spice enough may season as she likes.
The day of our birth is one day's advance towards our
death.
The death of youth is a shipwreck.
The devil doth not lie dead in a ditch.
The fairer the hostess, the fouler the reckoning.
The fairer the paper, the fouler the blot.
The fairest looking shoe may pinch the foot.
The fairest rose at last is withered.
The fairest silk is the soonest stained.
The old woman would never have looked for her daughter
in the oven, had she not been there herself,
The older the fool is, the worse he is.
Till death all is life.
Time and straw ripen meddlers
Time and thought tame the greatest grief.
Time and tide tarry for no man.
Time and words cannot be recalled.
Time devours all things.
Time is the rider that breaks in youth.
Time past may be repented, but can never be recalled.
Time spent in vice or folly is doubly lost.
Time wrongs antiquity.
Timely and wise fear of danger prevents danger.
Timely blossom, timely fruit.
'Tis not good to be happy too young.
'Tis time, conversation and business, that discovers what
a man is.
To be daily dying is a blessed life.
To-day a man, to-morrow a mouse.
To-day is yesterday's pupil.
To-day me, to-morrow thee.
To woo is a pleasure in a young man, but a phrensy in
an old.
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
We are bound to be honest, but not to be rich.
We are ever young enough to sin, never old enough to
repent.
We begin not to live, till we are fit to die.
What pretty things men will make for money, quoth the
old woman, when she saw a monkey.
What tutor shall we find for a child of sixty years old ?
Wrinkled purses make wrinkled faces.
Young men are made wise, old men become so.
Young men should be learners, when old men are actors.
Young men think old men fools; but old men know the
young are so.
Young prodigal in a coach will be old beggar bare-foot
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Modem; with many Thousands of Proverbs, Familiar Phrases and
Sayings, from all sources, including Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin,
French, German, Spanish, Italian, and other Languages" by W. GURNEY BENHAM (PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY & London: CASSELL & Company, 1907).
A bald head is soon shaven. (E.)
A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty.
Age and wedlock tame man and beast.
Age and wedlock bring a man to his night- cap. (R)
Wedding and ill-wintering tame both man and beast. (B.)
Age before honesty.
An idle youth, a needy age. (G. H.)
An old cat laps as much as a young kitten. (R.)
An old dog cannot alter his way of barking. (R.)
An old dog does not bark for nothing.
If the old dog bark, he gives counsel. (G. II.)
An old man's saying is rarely untrue.
An old man in a house is a good sign in a
house.
An old man is a bed full of bones. (E.)
An old man is twice a child.
An old man's staff is the rapper of death's door. (G. H.)
An old nought will never be ought. (R.)
An old sack asketh much patching. (R.)
An old sin, a new shame.
An old soldier, an old fool.{From the Fr.)
An old wise man's shadow is better than
a young buzzard's sword. (G. H.)
Experience is the mistress of fools.
Experience keeps a dear school; but fools
will learn in no other. ? Poor Richard.
Experience makes even fools wise.
Experience may teach a fool. (R. Sc.)
Experience must be bought.
Experience that is bought is good, if not
too dear.
If people take no care for the future,
they will soon have to sorrow for the
present. ? (Chinese.)
Life is half spent before we know what it is. (G, H.)
Old men are twice children.
Old men go to death, death comes to
young men. (G. H.)
Old men, when they scorn young, make
much of death. (G. H.)
Old ovens are soon hot.
Old praise dies unless you feed it, (G. H.)
Old shoes are easiest.
Old sin, new shame. (R. Sc.)
Old wounds soon bleed.
Praise day at night, and life at the end.
The life of man is a winter's day, and a
winter's way. (E.)
The life of man is a winter way. (G. H.)
The old cow thinks she was never a calf.
The older the blood the less the pride.
They that live longest must g6 farthest for wood. (E. )
They that live longest must fetch Are
furthest. (R.)
Time destroys all things.
Time is God's and ours.
Time is the best counsellor.
When riches increase, the body decreaseth. (R.)
Where old age is evil, youth can leain no good. (E-)
It is ill teaching an old dog to keep still.? (Dan.)
Young folk, Billy folk; old folk, cold folk.
Young men may die, old men must. (E.)
Young men think old men fools; old men
know young men to be so. (E.)
Youth and age will never agree. (R. So.)
Youth lives on hope, old age on remembrance.
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