The youth of today...

[Alfa numeric]

An old man said:

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers".

ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato, according to William L.
Patty and Louise S. Johnson, Personality and Adjustment, p. 277
(1953)."

Another old man said:

"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint"

Hesiod, 8th century BC

A third old man said:

"The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress."

Extract from a sermon preached by Peter the Hermit in A.D. 1274


Some things don't change...

[ZesPak]

Nope, and they won't. I'm merely 25 and even I have said "the kids of today have no manners and don't know how to work for their money" on more than one occasion.

[pad58]

We are all DOOMED i tell ya.

[OlberJ]

dibbers006 said:

One day no doubt Murder will become but a Social Faux Pas and derided as an awkward moment in the day and yet to us now the same quote would still apply to the future times yet be interpreted to be current.

Welcome to Glasgow.

Stuck in the 70's.

No wait, that doesn't fit.

[Strangely Brown]

Baz Luhrman said:

Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old; and when you
do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children
respected their elders.