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Oliver Wendell Holmes

  • It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.... Oliver Wendell Holmes {view}
  • Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.... Oliver Wendell Holmes {view}
  • Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all... Oliver Wendell Holmes {view}
  • Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it... Oliver Wendell Holmes {view}
  • The world's great men have not commonly been scholars, nor its great scholars great men.... Oliver Wendell Holmes {view}
  • Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.... Oliver Wendell Holmes {view}
  • The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth... Oliver Wendell Holmes {view}
  • A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend... Oliver Wendell Holmes {view}
  • Self-abnegation, that rare virtue, that good men preach and good women practice... Oliver Wendell Holmes {view}
  • The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books... Oliver Wendell Holmes {view}
  • You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time that the peril of being judged not to have lived at all.... Oliver Wendell Holmes {view}
  • The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.... Oliver Wendell Holmes {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • Love prefers twilight to daylight... Oliver Wendell Holmes {view}
  • Husband and wife come to look alike at last... Oliver Wendell Holmes {view}
  • Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming";... Oliver Wendell Holmes {view}
  • The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of bigger ideas, never returns to its original size.... Oliver Wendell Holmes {view}