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

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

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...

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We...

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We...

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of...

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of...

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see...

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see...

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.

It is far from easy to determine whether she (Nature) has proved to man a...

It is far from easy to determine whether she (Nature) has proved to man a...

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death...

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death...

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit...

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit...

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...

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck -...

To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck -...

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than...

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than...

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in...

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in...

Through age after age, I am the servant of the Merciful Lord.

Through age after age, I am the servant of the Merciful Lord.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.

In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.