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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Have faith and pursue the unknown end. Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from menfrom mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men
from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: 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. 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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: 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? 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?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Have the courage to act instead of react. Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Man has his will, but woman has her way. Man has his will, but woman has her way.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Speak clearly if you speak at all, carve every word before you let it fall. Speak clearly if you speak at all, carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think. The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Stupidity often saves a man from going mad. Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them! Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming. Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light. Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face. Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Love prefers twilight to daylight. Love prefers twilight to daylight.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him. Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life. Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day. A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Why can't somebody give us a list of things everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of the things that everybody says but nobody thinks? Why can't somebody give us a list of things everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of the things that everybody says but nobody thinks?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Science is the topography of ignorance. Science is the topography of ignorance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: The Amen of nature is always a flower. The Amen of nature is always a flower.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable Nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them. I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children. Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul. The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over. Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Many people die with their music still in them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it time runs out. Many people die with their music still in them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it time runs out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Beware how you take away hope from another human being Beware how you take away hope from another human being
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us. Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes: Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

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