Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: judge
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 8, 1841 - March 6, 1935

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ManMeYouYoungSaySixty

I coasted through high school. I was 203rd in a class of 987.

Jerry Reinsdorf

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My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.

Robert Smith

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When I'm looking for a leader who's gonna sit across the negotiating table from a nuclear Iran, or who's gonna be intent on destroying ISIS, I couldn't care less about that leader's temperament or his tone or his vocabulary. Frankly, I want the meanest, toughest son of a gun I can find.

Robert Jeffress

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I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

Amanda Palmer

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I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people.

Steve Guttenberg

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Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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I think we will be safer when we can concentrate law enforcement and criminal justice resources and energies on those individuals who truly need, for the safety of society... to be incarcerated.

Matt Bevin

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I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

Michael Tolkin

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Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

Mohsin Hamid

WritingPointBeingWriter

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

Mitch Leigh

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The first and best way to say 'no' to anyone is, 'How am I supposed to do that?' Now the other side actually has no idea as to the number of things you've done with them at the same time. You conveyed to them you have a problem.

Christopher Voss

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Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.

Phoebe Cates

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