Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Funny, Humor, Years

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Moving, Fall, Men

• It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Father, Believe, Son

• While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Heart, Age, Youth

• Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Sweet, Men, Age

• Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Dream, Real, Age

• Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Funny, Men, Secret

  Said to a journalist on his 90th birthday, eric.ed.gov. March 08, 1931.

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