Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
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More Quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
Towering in the confidence of twenty-one.
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
Age is not better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
