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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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When in doubt, do it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To be seventy years young is sometimes
far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
And in the end, it's not
the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
To raise new questions, new possibilities,
to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
Forgiveness is the cleansing fire
that burns away old regrets and resentments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
What old people say you cannot do,
you try and find that you can.
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
I can't understand why people
are frightened by new ideas.
I'm frightened of old ones.
- John Cage
There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine
I always like to know everything about my new friends,
and nothing about my old ones.
- Oscar Wilde
There are old heads in the world
who cannot help me by their example or advice
to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself;
but I believe that it is in my power
to elevate myself this very hour
above the common level of my life.
- Henry David Thoreau
Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Every generation laughs at the old fashions,
but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau
As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it serenely
and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business
that allows us to experience the present,
free of contamination from the past.
- Joan Borysenko
It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take some time in a quiet place to contemplate
the balance between being of service -
both to this generation and to generations yet unborn -
and renewing your vitality with play and celebration.
Without play, one becomes old and dry.
Without service, life becomes meaningless.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process,
gradually changing opinions,
slowly eroding old barriers,
quietly building new structures.
- John F. Kennedy
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving
for my friends, the old and the new.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Old friends pass away, new friends appear.
It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.
The important thing is to make it meaningful:
a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln
I believe in God, but not as one thing,
not as an old man in the sky.
I believe that what people call God
is something in all of us.
I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha
and all the rest said was right.
It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
- John Lennon
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot
To a philosopher all news,
as it is called, is gossip,
and they who edit and read it
are old women over their tea.
- Henry David Thoreau
My coat and I live comfortably together.
It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere,
has moulded itself on my deformities,
and is complacent to all my movements,
and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.
Old coats and old friends are the same thing.
- Victor Hugo
Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.
- Robert Browning
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns
to be amused rather than shocked.
- Pearl S. Buck
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF
This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder)
I wrote to myself recently.
Live in your joy today.
Be authentic. Love yourself. First.
Love others from your own abundance.
Life Changes. Circumstances change.
Sometimes you try to fit your old way
of being into new circumstances
rather than becoming new yourself.
Embrace transformation as an opportunity.
And keep on writing love letters to yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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