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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
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One has to dismount from an idea, and get into the saddle again, at every parenthesis (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
We find it hard to get and to keep any private property in thought. Other people are all the time saying the same things we are hoarding to say when we get ready (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
An old author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The general rule, at least, is that while property may be regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
It cannot be helped, it is as it should be, that the law is behind the times (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can’t sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn’t it done the other way? (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Old books, you know well, are books of the world’s youth, and new books are the fruits of its age (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
War is a child that devours its nurses one after another, until it is claimed by its true parents (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
When a strong brain is weighed with a true heart, it seems to me like balancing a bubble against a wedge of gold (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Freedom is the ferment of freedom. The moistened sponge drinks up water greedily; the dry one sheds it (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Books are the negative pictures of thought, and the more sensitive the mind that receives their images, the more nicely the finest lines are reproduced (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Science is a good piece of furniture for a man to have in an upper chamber, provided he has common sense on the ground floor (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world, if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could by any possibility marry (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
As vessels starting from ports thousands of miles apart pass close to each other in the naked breadth of the ocean, nay, sometimes even touch in the dark (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
There is no possible success without some opposition as a fulcrum; force is always aggressive, and crowds something or other, if it does not hit and trample upon it (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you put upon it, the more it will contract (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
One of the greatest pleasures of childhood is found in the mysteries which it hides from the skepticism of the elders, and works up into small mythologies of its own (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
See how he throws his baited lines about, and plays his men as anglers play their trout (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
There comes a time when the souls of human beings, women more even than men, begin to faint for the atmosphere of the affections they are made to breathe (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
High on the world, see where religion stands and bears the open volume in her hands (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)