All Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
- Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. Age
- The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. Exceptions
- The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. Always Ready
- Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us. All
- Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. Every Real
- Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. Another Mind
- A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. Hundred
- We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. Grow
- A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. Calamity
- Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall. A mother's secret love outlives them all. All
- Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius inan essentially common personis detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of… Character
- Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the… Beheld