Proverbs:

A worm is in the bud of youth and at the root of age.
Cowper
A young man negligent, an old man necessitous.
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Action from youth, advice from middle age, prayers from the aged.
Hesiod
Age but tastes, youth devours.
Dryden
Age is a sorry travelling companion. 
Danish
Age is venerable in man and would be in woman if ever she became old.
Punch
Age makes many a man white but not better.
Danish
Better eat gray bread in your youth than in your age.
Scotch
Better poor, young and wise, than rich, old and a fool.
German
Better under the beard of the old than the whip of the young.
Polish
But like red hot steel is the old man’s ire.
Byron
Consult with the old and fence with the young.
German
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together.
Shakespeare
Few persons know how to be old.
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Good-morrow, spectacles; farewell, lasses.
French
Gray beard and red lip seldom remain good friends.
German
He that corrects not youth controls not age.
French
He that would be long an old man must begin early to be one.
Spectator
He that would be old long must begin betimes.
Portuguese
He wrongs not an old man who steals his supper from him.
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Heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age.
German
If the young knew, if the old man could, there is nothing but would be done.
Italian
If you lie upon roses when young, you’ll lie upon thorns when old.
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If youth knew what age would crave,
It would both get and save.
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In telling the age of another, multiply by two; in telling your own, divide by two.
Punch
In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood there is no such word as fail.
Bulwer
Intemperate youth ends in an age imperfect and unsound.
Denham
It has been a great misfortune to many a one that he lived too long.
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It is difficult to grow old gracefully.
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It is hard to put old heads on young shoulders.
*
It is less painful to learn in youth than to be ignorant in age.
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It is the common failing of old men to attribute all wisdom to themselves.
Fielding
Most old men are like old trees, past bearing themselves, will suffer no young plants to flourish beneath them.
Pope
No man is so old but thinks he may live another day.
Pythagoras
No old age agreeable but that of a wise man.
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No one so old that he may not live a year, none so young but he may die to-day.
German
Of young men die many, of old escape not any.
*
Old age brings companions with it. 
German
Old age comes uncalled.
German
Old age has deformities enough of its own, do not add the deformity of vice.
Cato
Old age is a troublesome guest.
German
Old age is a tyrant which forbids the pleasures of youth on pain of death.
Rochefoucauld
Old age is honorable.
*
Old age itself is a disease.
Terence
Old age, though despised, is coveted by all.
*
Old boys have playthings as well as young ones, the difference is only in the price.
Franklin
Old head and young hand.
*
Old men are twice children.
*
Old men do not readily form friendships because they are not easily susceptible of pleasure.
Aristotle
Old men for counsel, young men for war.
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Old men go to death, but death comes to young men.
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Old men when they scorn young, make much of death.
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Old men who have loved young company have been of long life.
Bacon
Old people see best in the distance.
German
Old young and old long.
*
Poverty and age suit very ill together.
Burke
Reckless youth makes rueful age. 
Scotch
Secure the three things, virtue, wealth and happiness, they will serve as a staff in old age.
Tamil
The aged in council, the young in action.
Danish
The blunders of youth are preferable to the triumphs of manhood or the success of old age.
Benjamin Disraeli
The old effect more by counsel than the young by action.
German
The old for want of ability and the young for want of knowledge let things be lost.
Spanish
The old forget, the young don’t know.
German
The old have death before their face, the young behind their backs.
German
The old have every day something new.
German
The old man at home and the young abroad lie after the same fashion.
Spanish
The old man who dances furnishes the devil fine sport.
German
The old man’s counsel is half deed.
German
The old see better behind than the young before.
German
The oldest man that ever lived died at last.
Gaelic
The young may die, the old must die.
German
We expiate in old age the follies of our youth.
Latin
What the old man does is always right.
Hans Andersen
When an old man cannot drink prepare his grave.
Spanish
When an old man dances he raises a great dust.
German
When men grow old they become more foolish and more wise.
French
When old men are not upright they teach their sons and grandsons to be rogues.
Chinese
Who follow not virtue in youth cannot fly sin in old age.
Italian
Who would be young in age, must in youth be sage.
German
Young folk, silly folk, old folk, cold folk.
Dutch
Young men’s knocks, old men feel.
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Young people must be taught, old ones be honored.
Danish
Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is a garland of roses, age is a crown of thorns. 
Hebrew
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