#old

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#exceptions #knows #man #old #old man

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#forty #forty years #hopeful #more #old

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#called #first #first time #hears #himself

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#grow #old #playing #quit

Old age is fifteen years older than I am. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#am #fifteen #i #i am #old

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#associations #channel #imagination #memories #more

A new untruth is better than an old truth. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#new #old #than #truth #truth is

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#calamity #great #happened #hour #old

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#far #forty #forty years #hopeful #more

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#days #friend #greeting #his #homage