FastSaying

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

CheerfulFarFortyForty YearsHopefulMoreOldSeventySometimesThanYearsYoung

Related Quotes

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
CheerfulFortyHopeful
That we have come as far as we have in forty years [the 1930s to the 1970s] is hopeful, though I believe it is more through the fact that Hitler's excesses made racism poisonous to any humane individual than through our own virtue. That we have much farther to go is incontestable.
— Isaac Asimov
FarFortyHopeful
Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
cheerfulface
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
ExceptionsKnowsMan
There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.
— Buddy Rich
FortyForty YearsIndividual