Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.
My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.