Kids these days

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What do the ravages of time not injure? Our parents' age (worse than our grandparents') has produced us, more worthless still, who will soon give rise to a yet more vicious generation.

Horace

Odes

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Topic

Kids these days Effects of time Things are getting worse

Author

Horace

Source

Odes

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Question

Language

Latin

Time

23 BC 20s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 6.

Current Citation

Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, no. 6.

Our fathers' age was worse than our grandfathers'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.

Horace

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Topic

Kids these days Moral decline Decline

Author

Horace

Source

Odes (Horace)

Medium

Poem

Language

Latin

Time

23 BC 20s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 6.

Current Citation

Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, no. 6.

I weep for the future.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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Topic

Kids these days The future

Speaker

Chez Quis Maitre D'

Actor

Jonathan Schmock

Source

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Medium

Film

Genre

Teen comedy (film) Teen (film) Teen comedy Teen

Language

English

Time

1986 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Directed by John Hughes. Paramount Pictures, 1986.

This is an evil generation: they seek a sign.

Jesus

Luke 11:29

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Topic

Kids these days Lack of faith

Speaker

Jesus

Source

Gospel of Luke The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

61 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Luke 11:29).

Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
Where none will sweat but for promotion.

William Shakespeare

As You Like It

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Topic

Hard work Incentives Kids these days

Speaker

Orlando

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

As You Like It

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 3.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

That sign of old age: extolling the past at the expense of the present.

Sydney Smith

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Topic

Kids these days The past Old age

Speaker

Sydney Smith

Genre

Biography

Language

English

Time

1845 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Smith, Sydney. Quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith, by Saba Holland. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, ch. 11.