Trilobites Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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

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