Government Quote by Han Fei

“The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father’s opinions and even into those of…

— John Updike

“THE subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but…

— John Stuart Mill

“What seems strained - a mere triumph of perverse ingenuity - to one age, seems plain and obvious to another, so that our ancestors…

— C.S. Lewis

“As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the…

— Steven Pinker

each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the…

— Eloise Lownsbery

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“There is no way to deter old age from its grim duty, but a life of accomplishments makes up in quality for what it…

— Anonymous

If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live. Old families, old customs, old styles survive because they…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

“Older people sometimes talk about the good old days when life was better. In fact, they talk nostalgically about their own youth that was…

— Eraldo Banovac

“To me,' said Mr. Herbert, 'it seems rather that the only hope for the present age lies in the possibility of some individual wiser…

— William Hurrell Mallock

“One is allowed to change the past: the present is so stubborn.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“don’t underestimate old people. They’re treacherous and conniving”

— Honor Raconteur