A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as...

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as...

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does...

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does...

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!

Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct - if you can call that a...

Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct - if you can call that a...

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It...

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It...

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to...

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to...

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot...

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot...

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think...

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think...

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general...

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general...

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...