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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Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

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...

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 man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

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.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you...

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you...

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

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.

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...

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...

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.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is...

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is...

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Carve every word before you let it fall.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no...

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no...