What youth is used to, age remembers. 
Proverbs on a similar topic
- Never too late to learn.
- Practice makes perfect.
- Experience is the best teacher.
- Spare the rod and spoil the child.
- Teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
- Better to ask the way than go astray.
- Many things are lost for want of asking.
- Mistakes are often the best teachers.
- Never offer to teach fish to swim.
- No man is born Wise or learned.
- They must hunger in frost that will not work in heat.
- Children when they are little make parents fools, when they are great they make them mad.
- The young pig grunts like the old sow.
- Better children weep than old men.
- One father can support ten children; ten children cannot support one father.
- The man who has not been flogged is not educated.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in the same language
English
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Learning in one's youth is engraving in stone.
- Who so learned young forgets not when he is old.
Similar proverbs in another language
French
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Ce que poulain prend en jeunesse, il le continue en vieillesse.
What the foal takes in youth, it continues in old age.
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Ce qu'on apprend dans la jeunesse on le retient dans la vieillesse.
What you learn in youth you retain in old age.
German
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Jung gewohnt, alt getan.
Young used to, old done.
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Am längsten behält man, was man in der Jugend gelernt hat.
You retain longest what you learned when you were young.
Czech
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Co se v mládí naučíš, ve stáří jako když najdeš.
What you learn in youth, you find in old age.
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Z mládí se trn ostří.
Youth is a thorn in the side.