Generations

(225 votes)   Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(142 votes)   The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(129 votes)   It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(126 votes)   The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(122 votes)   I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(120 votes)   From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(114 votes)   We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British Author

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(103 votes)   We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(101 votes)   The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(98 votes)   It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

Charles Dudley Warner
1829-1900, American Author

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(97 votes)   Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(90 votes)   A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood -- a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy.

E(lwyn) B(rooks) White
1899-1985, American Author, Editor

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(74 votes)   Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence; but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

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