Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.
I really like life, don't you? There's nothing else quite like it.
The parade was here, but it disappeared around a corner.
The young are just as opinionated as the old, but have more exciting things to do than sit around airing their opinions all day.
Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.
The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.