...by Henry Nelson Coleridge, 1835; repr. in Collected Works, vol. 14, ed. by Kathleen Coburn, 1990). 2 To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful...than to be forty years old. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. (1809-94), US writer, physician. Letter. 27 May 1 889. to poet and reformer Julio Ward Howe on...

...chores, handle your own finances, and provide the family with treats now and then. 255 Prosper at Home To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful...be forty years old. — OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. Yes, You Can.' 256 Enjoy your retirement. For some, retirement is the most enjoyable stage of life;...

...help with household chores, handle your own finances, and provide the family with treats now and then. sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. — OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. For some, retirement is the most enjoyable stage oflife; for others, it is an empty state of existence....

...Holmes once wrote a letter to Julia Ward Howe on the occasion of her 70th birthday. In it he said, 'To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old." As we mark STROM THURMOND'S legacy of service in the Senate, I think it is clear that no one is younger...

...is not a bigger tent - but command. 1945 A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure. 1946 To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. 1947 If you think that I am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement, or...

...is not a bigger tent - but command. 4720 A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure. 4721 , 4722 If you think that 1 am going to bother myself again before I die about social improvement, or...

...that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. — W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful...than to be forty years old. —Oliver Wendell Holmes I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. — Thomas Jefferson, letter to...

..."For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex." (Gore Vidal) • Age seventy: "To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful...than to be forty years old." (Oliver Wendell Holmes) Ratcliffe, Susan, ed. People on People: The Oxford Dictionary of Biographical Quotations. New York,...

...everything." — Pascal "Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age." — Victor Hugo "To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful...to be forty years old." — Oliver Wendell Holmes "I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines." — Oliver...

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