Thirty years of fame and dust, eight thousand miles of clouds and moon. Don't wait any longer. The young man's head will turn gray, and he will be filled with sorrow. ——Yue Fei's "The River is Red"
The flowers will bloom again, and no one will be young again. ——Dou E's Injustice "Dou E's Injustice"
An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time. ——Anonymous
I advise you not to cherish your gold-threaded clothes. I advise you to cherish your youth. If there are flowers, you must break them off. Don’t wait until there are no flowers. ——Anonymous "Golden Threaded Clothes"
The flowers fell helplessly, and the swallows returned, as if they had known each other before. ——Yan Shu's "Huanxisha"
Be encouraged in time, time waits for no one. ——Tao Yuanming's "Miscellaneous Poems"
If a young man does not work hard, an old man will be sad. ——Ancient Chinese Yuefu poem "Long Song Xing"
One hundred years will make another hundred years come, and today must still love today. ——Wang Shizhen
It is easy for people to be thrown away by the flow of time. The cherries are red and the bananas are green. ——Jiang Jie's "A Cut of Plum Blossoms"
The sunny season is wasted again, and the twilight time will be like that again. There are few spring days in one year, and there are many old days in a hundred years.
——Bai Juyi's "Spring Festival Gala Ode to Huangfu Langzhi"