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

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history...

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

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...

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...

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

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

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

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...

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

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

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

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 advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal...

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal...

Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

It's more fun writing bad books than reading good ones.

It's more fun writing bad books than reading good ones.