“Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you
to say disagreeable things to your intimates.
The nearer you come into relation with a person,
the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Happy 205th Birthday
“People do not quit playing
because they grow old;
they grow old because
they quit playing.”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Thought for the Day
A FRIEND
“There is no friend like an old friend
Who has shared our morning days,
No greeting like his welcome,
No homage like his praise.
Fame is the scentless sunflower,
With gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose,
With sweets in every fold.”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809-1894)
Thought for the Day
“Pretty much all the honest truth-telling
there is in the world
is done by children.”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809-1894)
Thought for the Day
“The young man knows the rules,
but the old man knows the exceptions.”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809-1894)
Thought for the Day
“The man who is always worrying
about whether or not his soul would be damned
generally has a soul that isn’t worth a damn.”
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809-1894)
Thought for the Day
“A moment’s insight is sometimes
worth a life’s experience.”
Thought for the Day
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience
can never go back to its old dimensions.”
Thought for the Day
“Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it
take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip
the bottom out of their boat.”
Quote for Today
“The foliage has been losing its freshness
through the month of August,
and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself
like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty
who has seen one season too many.”
Todays Thought
“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.
Before they know it,
time runs out.”
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