178 Quotations by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- 81. Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you ...
- 82. Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
- 83. Love prefers twilight to daylight.
- 84. Man has his will - but woman has her way
- 85. Man has will, but woman has her way.
- 86. Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, ...
- 87. Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
- 88. Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
- 89. Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
- 90. Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense o ...
- 91. Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles o ...
- 92. Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of ...
- 93. Nobody talks much who doesn't say unwise things - things he did not mean to say. Talk, to me, is onl ...
- 94. Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
- 95. Old age is fifteen years older than I am
- 96. Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
- 97. One unquestioned text we read, All doubt beyond, all fear above; Nor crackling pile nor cursing cree ...
- 98. One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
- 99. Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes th ...
- 100. Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their ...
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