Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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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 b — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. — 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 f — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Love prefers twilight to daylight. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The Amen of nature is always a flower. — 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 — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is — 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 wo — 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 — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his — 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.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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 — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Have the courage to act instead of react. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the por — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.