#old

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#before #chuckle #eighty #longer #make

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered. ↗

— Philip Hone

#country #escape #first #homes #occasion

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else. ↗

— Russel Honore

#go #i #major #myself #reached

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence. ↗

— Thomas Hood

#i #like #listening #misty #morn

Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile. ↗

— Russel Honore

#bad #cold #economy #fragile #hot

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle. ↗

— John B. Hood

#battle #brave #engaged #ever #fearful

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#man #old #old man #theory #young

Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#become #constitution #convention #convinced #efforts

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#back #because #blues #get #going

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed? ↗

— Bell Hooks

#always #believe #capacity #compassion #enough