Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes About Age
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Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.
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While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.
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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.
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From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
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Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Born: March 8, 1841
- Died: March 6, 1935
- Occupation: Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States