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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
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The smaller the calibre of mind, the greater the bore of a perpetually open mouth (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Genius is always impatient of its harness; its wild blood makes it hard to train (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
A pair of substantial mammary glands have the advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned professor's brain in the art of compounding a nutritive fluid for infants (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The axis of the Earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing. And he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team! (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
Science is a first rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving (Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes)