Old age is fifteen years older than I am. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Oliver Wendell Holmes Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “age” The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: wisdom age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. —Bernard Baruch More about this quote Tags: humor perception age old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email We categorize everyone. We send the old here, the young there. We ship adolescents off to war. We send everyone to prison every day: the children to school, the parents to the office or the factory, the musicians to concert halls in the evening. —John Cage More about this quote Tags: war age prison Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Don’t ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever were there, they are there still. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: poetry age joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email When I was young, I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: learning curiousity age youth Greek ambition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: wisdom age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. —Bernard Baruch More about this quote Tags: humor perception age old age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We categorize everyone. We send the old here, the young there. We ship adolescents off to war. We send everyone to prison every day: the children to school, the parents to the office or the factory, the musicians to concert halls in the evening. —John Cage More about this quote Tags: war age prison Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don’t ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever were there, they are there still. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: poetry age joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was young, I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: learning curiousity age youth Greek ambition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email