Monday, July 11, 2011

A double bon mot

"Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked."


Robert Browning  (1812-1889)



"It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date."


George Bernard Shaw  (1856-1950)


2 comments:

Gary said...

Great lines!

I always used to be amused, but lately I'm entering the shocked zone.

Middle age sucks.

Froog said...

I find myself in similarly angstful territory about this, G.