Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes & Sayings
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Age, like distance, lends a double charm. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more than those who try to be 'consistent.' [The Professor at the Breakfast Table] - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares: Uneasy lies the heads of all that rule, His worst of all whose kingdom is a school. Supreme he sits; before the awful frown That binds his brows the boldest eye goes down; Not more submissive Israel heard and saw At Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law. - 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 will be round and full at evening. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose! How blest to the toiler his hour of release When the vesper is heard with its whisper of peace! - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more than those who try to be 'consistent.' [The Professor at the Breakfast Table] - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares: Uneasy lies the heads of all that rule, His worst of all whose kingdom is a school. Supreme he sits; before the awful frown That binds his brows the boldest eye goes down; Not more submissive Israel heard and saw At Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law. - 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 will be round and full at evening. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Sweet shadows of twilight! how calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose! How blest to the toiler his hour of release When the vesper is heard with its whisper of peace! - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.