Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The quotations of
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
American poet and physician
1809–1894
50 quotes, most often on Thinking, Talking and Truth & Lies.
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
“On the Seventieth Birthday of Julia Ward Howe” (May 27, 1889); reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
