A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share
“Old Ironsides" Aye tear her tattered ensign down long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share
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 a man… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share
Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share
“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of an eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share
