Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Profession : Writer

Birth : August 29, 1809

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?

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Don't be 'consistent', but be simply true.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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!

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.