Best Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotations
- What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that… Authors
- What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while… Attempt
- Science is the topography of ignorance. Ignorance
- The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the… Book
- To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. Crazy
- Man has his will, but woman has her way. Funny
- For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for… Business
- Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. All
- When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine… Best
- 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 last,… Art
- Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming. Coming
- I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me Civilization
- It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without… All
- When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by… Accepted
- Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist… Act
- The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected… Afternoon
- Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face. Cheerful
- Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust… Accumulate
- Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over. Difference
- Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one… All
- Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. All
- Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings. Boundless
- Cupid "the little greatest enemy." Cupid
- Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. Funny
- The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth Bunch
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