Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.was an American physician, poet, professor, lecturer, and author based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, his peers acclaimed him as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. He was also an important medical reformer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 August 1809
CountryUnited States of America
age-and-aging men playing
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
uttered
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
calamity disaster great
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
knows man wisdom
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.