Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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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.
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Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.
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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.
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We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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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.
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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.