Henry Adams Quotes

Most people I work with are older than me and the main thing I've learnt is that everyone is a dumb as an 18-year-old.

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

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

If I had my way, all actors over 55 would be issued a 3-lb. wet salmon with which to slap the face of every young, beautiful, successful upstart.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

I want the young guys to say, 'How old is this guy that's blocking me every play?'

I don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

I found a lot of guys my age and older were absolutely terrified of me. Younger men weren't.

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.

Just because people are older, they don't have the right to tell you what's right and wrong.

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.

Don't trust anyone over 30.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

I'm 28 years old. In my country, that's considered very young. It's almost like the youth don't matter to the up-and-ups.

The most significant social pathology of my youth was the generation gap.

If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.

When did Youth ever thank Age for its wisdom?

Youth is always an enemy to the old.

Young people are narcissistic. They become less narcissistic as they age, but they become crankier about younger people being narcissistic.