Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
Top 79 wise famous quotes and sayings by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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.
Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
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?
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
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.
A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
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.
Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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?
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
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 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.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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.
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.
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.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.