Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Profession : Writer

Birth : August 29, 1809

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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.

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.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.