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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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 time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes