Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it - but talking is like playing at a mark with the pipe of an engine; if it is within reach, and you… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
Talking is like playing on the harp, there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
A man's mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and to shut… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
Beauty is only skin deep... but dont tell an ugly person that — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
