“Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Child Copy Share Image
Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me — Oliver Wendell Holmes Civilization Copy Share Image
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore! — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
My fee, if I select the subject, is $150; if your committee selects the subject, the charge is $250, but in either… — 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 Creativity Copy Share Image
The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Family Copy Share Image
The bigot is like the pupil of the eye, the more light you put upon it, the more it will contract. — 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… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time. — 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… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Good man 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… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Acceptance Copy Share Image
It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Great tragedy 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… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Business Copy Share Image
[I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Justice 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… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Art Copy Share Image
Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Action 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… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
“Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn! From thy dead lips… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Children Copy Share Image
Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Animal Copy Share Image
Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Seasoned Copy Share Image
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Insanity Copy Share Image
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Fool Copy Share Image
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Happiness Copy Share Image
Beauty is only skin deep... but dont tell an ugly person that — Oliver Wendell Holmes Beauty Copy Share Image
The great end of living is to harmonize man with the order of things — Oliver Wendell Holmes Harmonize Copy Share Image
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Idea Copy Share Image
The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Creativity Copy Share Image
Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct - if you can call that a judgment which seemingly has no reference to… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Death Copy Share Image
It is far from easy to determine whether she (Nature) has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother — Oliver Wendell Holmes Nature Copy Share Image
I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Complexity Copy Share Image
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