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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes - IQDb - Internet Quotes Database

Quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


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Have the courage to act instead of react.


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 were left!


Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.


Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.


I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.


The Amen of nature is always a flower.


Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.


It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.


Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.


Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.


Love prefers twilight to daylight.


Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.


The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.


To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.


I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.


It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.


The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.


But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.


Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.


Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.