Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

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...

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly...

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly...

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our...

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our...

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they...

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they...

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

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...

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men -...

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men -...

Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.

Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by...

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by...

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be...

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be...

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often...

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often...

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has...

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has...

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit...

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit...

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.