"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
― Oliver Wendell Holmes
Topic(s): Wisdom
More From Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."
- "The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
- "A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."