Generation Transit

Famous quotes containing the words generation and/or transit:

“One generation plants the trees under which another takes its ease.”
—Chinese proverb.

“My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy ... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.”
—William Lamb Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (1779–1848)