Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind,...

Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind,...

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 -...

The bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you put upon...

The bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you put upon...

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.

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

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

Husband and wife come to look alike at last

Husband and wife come to look alike at last

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom...

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom...

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...

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it....

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it....

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each...

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each...

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but...

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but...

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

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

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

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...

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by...

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by...

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the...

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the...