178 Quotations by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- 41. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect ...
- 42. Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.
- 43. Faith, as an intellectual state, is self-reliance.
- 44. Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
- 45. Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life ...
- 46. God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story ...
- 47. Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.
- 48. Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!
- 49. Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with ...
- 50. Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
- 51. Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
- 52. He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
- 53. Heredity: An omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then, one of them puts his h ...
- 54. How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
- 55. Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people.
- 56. I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are movi ...
- 57. I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would ...
- 58. I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no gen ...
- 59. I have a desire to leave the world a little more human than if I had not lived; for a true humanity ...
- 60. I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even prett ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes by Power Quotations
|