Best Oliver Wendell Holmes Lines
- Beware how you take away hope from any human being Any
- Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness. Gates
- There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not… Cannot Help
- Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension. Dimension
- The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction… Abilities
- Old age is fifteen years older than I am. Age
- 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… Acceptance
- The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts. Ghosts
- The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. Direction
- 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 trouble;… Bad
- A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time. Always Startled
- Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it. Controversy
- Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. Fame
- I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap. Feel
- Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned. Knowledge
- Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up. Another Mind
- Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. Authors
- One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Dimensions
- Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor. Chamber
- The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. Direction
- The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. Dimensions
- My fee, if I select the subject, is $150; if your committee selects the subject, the charge is $250, but in either case the speech… Case
- Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. Accurate
- [I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time of Henry IV.… Better
- In order to know what [the law] is, we must know what it has been, and what it tends to become. Been
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