They can do without architecture
who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
- Henry David Thoreau
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To reach a port, we must sail -
sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt quoting Oliver Wendell Holmes
When in doubt, do it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
A mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
He who stops being better, stops being good.
- Oliver Cromwell
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To be seventy years young is sometimes
far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
Clear? Huh. Why a four-year-old child
could understand this report.
Run out and find me a four-year-old child,
I can't make head or tail of it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
When your friends begin to flatter
you on how young you look,
it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Mark Twain
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.
- the movie Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
I'm saving that rocker for the day
when I feel as old as I really am.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
All diseases run into one - old age.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I make it a policy to try never to
make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way.
After all, there's always all kinds of new ways
to make a complete idiot of myself.
Why repeat the old ones?
- Margot Dalton
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
To a philosopher all news,
as it is called, is gossip,
and they who edit and read it
are old women over their tea.
- Henry David Thoreau
Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary
to put all the play and learning into childhood,
all the work into middle age,
and all the regrets into old age.
- Margaret Mead
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
I have nothing new to teach the world.
Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills.
All I have done is to try experiments
in both on as vast a scale as I could.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
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