English to Russian translation help

In My Humble Opinion
1

I was trying to translate this expression into Russian:

“Youth is wasted on the young.”

I tried google translate but apparently it didn’t do a good job.

Any Russian speakers that can translate this and still keep the sense of the saying?

Thanks,
J.

2

My one bump…

J.

3

That one is hard to translate…

“молодость растрачена на молодых” is a pretty exact translation but I don’t think it conveys the same pithiness.

4

Actually, “молодость потеряна на молодых” would be a better translation. “Lost” instead of “wasted”.

5

And one more: I see some Russian sites doing it as “молодость растрачивается молодыми”, but that really means “Youth is (mis)spent by the young”, which is a slightly different meaning. Also “Молодость молодым не впрок” - which scans better.

6

Ah I think I found a perfect translation. Poetic, and slightly rephrases the famoush Pushkin’s

*Но грустно думать, что напрасно
была нам молодость дана,
что изменяли ей всечасно,
что обманула нас она
*

So “youth is wasted on the young” should be translated as “напрасно молодость дается молодым”.

7

Very good. Pushkin is very respected, and maybe this will get the point across.

Thanks,
J.