Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
+2Man has will, but woman has her way.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Lord, bid war’s trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Don’t be consistent, but be simply true.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1There’s nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Science is piecemeal revelation.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1As a physician, I am grateful for small fevers.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1A sense of wrong doing is an enhancement of pleasure.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Logic is logic. That’s all I say.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1I like books. I was born and bred among them, and have the easy feeling, when I get in their presence, that a stable-boy has among horses.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used till they are seasoned.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself;stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation,evermore!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1Apologizing – a very desperate habit – one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
