if youth knew, if age could
- if youth knew, if age could
Cf. H. ESTIENNE Les Premices (1594) 173 O si la ievnesse scavoit, O si la vieillesse povvoit; often quoted in its modern French form si jeunesse savait; si vieillesse pouvait.
1611 R. COTGRAVE Dict. French & English s.v. Jeunesse, If youth knew what to doe, and age could doe what it knowes, no man would ever be poore.
1922 J. JOYCE Ulysses 30 I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say?
2002 Times 9 July 19 The old adage, ‘If youth knew, if age but could’, has been replaced by a scenario in which youth doesn’t know, but age still can.
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