Oliver Wendell Holmes 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.
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.
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing.
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.
There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.
Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.
After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.
Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
One unquestioned text we read All doubt beyond all fear above Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it: God is Love.
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.
Youth fades love droops the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.
Life is an end in itself and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
