Easier Quote by Dana Stabenow

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is…

— Cyril Connolly

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“no longer dealing with reasonable, intelligent adults but with temperamental lunatics who had about as much self-control as hormonal teenagers.”

— Olivia Rigal

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

— George Orwell

It must be an industrious youth that provides against age; and he that fools away the one must either beg or starve in the…

— Heath L'Estrange

“All growth is costly. It involves the leaving behind of an old way of being in the world. Often it involves, at least for…

— Robert Kegan

Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.

— John Henrik Clarke

I thought that young people had more problems than old people...Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems…

— Andy Warhol

In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes…

— Brandon Mull

The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home.

— Howard Jacobson

“All the same, they [young, twenty-somethings] can't help feeling that the aged and even the infirm have somehow elected that condition ... or have…

— John Barth