#ay

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#because #before #die #getting #know

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#called #first #first time #hears #himself

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#become #come #courtesy #disagreeable #flatter

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#all day #break #bubble #day #evening

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#grow #old #playing #quit

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#answer #asking #attempting #cannot #existence

Love prefers twilight to daylight. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#love #prefers #twilight

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#everybody #give #list #nobody #says

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#any #day #forgets #her #man

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#cushioned #evenings #feet #home #love