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You can't trust anyone over thirty

Posted by ESC on November 13, 2010 at 13:18

In Reply to: You can't trust anyone over thirty posted by James Briggs on November 13, 2010 at 10:30:

: : What is the origin of the phrase "you can't trust anyone over thirty"? Andy Warhol?

: Whatever the origin, it's patently untrue.
: James Briggs (aged 77)!

"We have a saying in the movement that you can't trust anybody over thirty." Jack Weinberg. U.S. political activist. Quoted in S.F. Chronicle, 15 Nov 1964.

How about, you can't trust anyone over 80?

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