We may consider each generatio...

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~

We have to hate our immediate ...

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

~D. H. Lawrence~

The old know what they want; t...

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

~Logan Pearsall Smith~

The longer I live the more kee...

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~

The generations of men run on ...

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

~William Blake~

Nothing so dates a man as to d...

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

~Adlai E. Stevenson~

It's all that the young can do...

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

~George Bernard Shaw~

It is fortunate that each gene...

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

~Charles Dudley Warner~

I suppose you think that perso...

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~

From the earliest times the ol...

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~