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

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

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This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you...

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you...

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist...

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist...

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth...

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth...

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can...

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can...

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no...

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no...

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you...

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you...

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a...

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a...

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that...

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that...

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we...

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we...

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no...

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no...

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Every board member should have the right to stand up and vote the way they...

Every board member should have the right to stand up and vote the way they...

You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think

You can educate a fool, but you cannot make him think