A politician thinks of the next election --
a statesman, of the next generation.
?James Freeman Clarke
All change, all production and generation
are effected through the word.
?Leopold Senghor
What one generation sees as a luxury,
the next sees as a necessity.
?Anthony Crosland
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and
the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
?Henry David Thoreau
. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have
actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly
pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters
in our history and possibly the unhappiest.
?Eda LeShan
Every generation laughs at the old
fashions, but follows religiously the new.
?Henry David Thoreau
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
Each generation must go further than
the last or what's the use in it?
?Meridel Le Sueur
"The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life!"
And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good
or evil poured into them by so many learned
generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
?Gerald De Nerval
