Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and leve — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music d — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a correspo — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Science is the topography of ignorance. — 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. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The me — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desi — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.