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Great quote Rincewind. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> And bloody hard to live up to! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />
I seem to remember that my mother sent me that quote when I became a father. Despite this, in her own role as a mother she didn't take a blind bit of notice of it, and shamelessly bossed the whole family around. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />




Was it this one:

“Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi”
(Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. )

or maybe:

"As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind."

I also remember reading that they found ancient scribblings in an Egyptian pyramid moaning that things were going to the dogs, because the young didn’t respect their elders any more!

And I believe that the French have a saying “Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose”. Roughly translated as “The more things change, the more they stay the same!” As Womble also pointed out.




48 eh?! At 58 I’m an absolute sucker for well read intelligent young women... such as librarians.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/kissyou.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

(If I ever get to win this thread I shall pick Books to discuss – will they survive for much longer in the modern electronic age, which ones do you like/dislike etc…)

What? Trying to blatantly influence the judge with flattery! Me! Never…. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />