"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." ― Oliver Wendell Holmes Topic(s): Wisdom More From Oliver Wendell Holmes "Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air." "It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure." "Don’t you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?" More In Wisdom "I think there are good men and women in all decades. We’ve grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day."― Kevin Costner "Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out."― Marc Newson "Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus."― Wallace Stegner