A young man married is a man that's marred. Shakespeare
A young man married is a young man marred.
A young man negligent, an old man necessitous.
A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline. Montaigne
A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God Himself sits behind them. J. G. Holland
A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all.
A young man?s beauty is never without defects.
A young physician fattens the churchyard.
A young preacher, a new hell.
A young prodigal an old mumper.
A young saint, an old devil.
A young servingman, an old beggar.
A young star, who shone O'er life, too sweet an image for such gloss, A lovely being scarcely form'd or moulded, A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. Byron
A young tree bends, an old tree breaks.
A young tree bends; an old tree breaks. Yiddish] A yung baimeleh baigt zikh; an alter brecht zikh.
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 wife and a harvest goose, much cackle will both: a man that hath them in his clos [possession] he shall rest wroth.
A young wife is an old man's post-horse to the grave.
A young wife is an old man?s post-horse to the grave.
A young wife tends to cook too much at first.
A young wife, new bread, and green wood devastate a house.
A young woman is to an old man the horse that he rides to hell.
A young woman with an old man is really someone else's woman.
A young woman with an old man is really someone else?s woman.
A youngster can ask further than an aged has been.
A youngster is never poor.
A youth of frolic, an old age of cards. Pope
A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over a worn-out body to old age. Cicero
A youth that does not cultivate friendship with the elderly is like a tree without roots.
A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven. Wordsworth
A youth who does not work hard, will be begging will he is old.
A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous. Hare
A Yule feast may be quit at Pasch.
A yung baimeleh baigt zikh; an alter brecht zikh. (Yiddish)
A z'widarö Salsse. Oberösterreich Eine zuwidere, widerwärtige Salse. Unter 'Sals' versteht man den dick eingesottenen Saft irgendeiner Fruchtbeere u.s.w., der meist als Arznei aufbehalten wird. Die obige Redensart wird besonders auf widerwärtige Weibspersonen angewandt.
A Zaddik im Pelz. Jüdisch-deutsch Zaddik heißt hebräisch: 'der Fromme, der Gerechte', und ist gleichzeitig die Benennung des 18. Buchstaben des hebräischen Alphabets, welcher dem deutschen Z entspricht (eigentlich Tsadé). Am Ende eines Wortes wird ohne Ausnahme das sogenannte 'schlechte' (verdorben aus schlicht = gerade) Zaddik geschrieben. Nun ist aber das Zaddik im Worte 'Pelz', weil am Schlusse, eben 'schlecht'; daher bezeichnet der Volkswitz mit diesem Wortspiel einen frommthuenden Menschen, der im Grunde so schlecht ist, wie das Zaddik im Worte Pelz.
A zebra takes its stripes wherever it goes.
A zehlt em alle Bissen ans Maul.
A zehrt vom Lebe (Leibe) wie die Hundaxen.
A Zimmermannshaar misst an Zoll und a Schneiderfurz a gschlagene Elln.
A zoddelt em immer noch.
A zoiht a Kôp (Kopf) aus der Schlinge.
A zombaria, deixá-la quando mais agrada.
A Zwug zu stellen. Jüdisch-deutsch Vom altdeutschen zwagen = baden. Jemand etwas einbrocken. Im Sinne der polnischen und vielleicht aus dieser entstandenen Redensart: Sprawić komuś łaźnię.
A' are gude lasses, but whare cam the ill wives frae ? Scotland