“Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
Actually by financier Bernard Baruch.
Misattributed
“Old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
Actually by financier Bernard Baruch.
Misattributed
“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
Bernard Baruch (1870–1965) American businessman
On his 85th birthday, as quoted in The Observer [London] (21 August 1955)
“At fifteen years, twenty at most, one has "come from the press."”
Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897) French novelist
A quinze ans, vingt ans tout au plus, on est déjà achevé d'imprimer.
Source: Notes sur la vie (published posthumously 1899), P. 77; translation p. 369.
Donald Barthelme (1931–1989) American writer, editor, and professor
“Great Days”, conclusion.
Great Days (1979)
Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell
Variant: The future of our relationship hinged on advice from a fifteen-year old girl, a probably untrue story from a one-eyed Chihuahua trainer, and me unromantically – yet skillfully – kissing you on top of silverware and china?
Source: The Indigo Spell