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Time Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous…
- Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live.…
- To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
- A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his…
- When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by…
- Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one…
- For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
- Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in…
- A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
- I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.
- [I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time of Henry IV.…
- Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it - but talking is like playing at…
- There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!
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