#themselves

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#alive #barriers #between #communication #elders

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. ↗

— Rebecca West

#believe #each #even #everyone #less

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad. ↗

— E. B. White

#beyond #bury #child #deep #happy

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great. ↗

— Edmund White

#biography #forms #great #judgment #little

Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#america #believe #big #big business #business

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves. ↗

— Benjamin Whichcote

#full #none #themselves #those #who

For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, choose their own religions, select their own occupations, accumulate capital and invent better ways of doing things. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#better #better ways #capital #choose #countries

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#angry #anyone #dares #grow #live

Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does. ↗

— Tony Wilson

#does #enjoy #jazz #jazz musicians #last

The worst thing about this war is the chance it gives these dreadful little persons, the chance to make themselves important. ↗

— Arthur Wimperis

#chance #dreadful #gives #important #little