Famous Quotes / Oliver Wendell Holmes
178 Quotations by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- 121. Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly ...
- 122. Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit sti ...
- 123. Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit sti ...
- 124. Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
- 125. Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
- 126. Systems die; instincts remain.
- 127. Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul w ...
- 128. Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is lik ...
- 129. The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best book ...
- 130. The Amen of nature is always a flower.
- 131. The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as ...
- 132. The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as ...
- 133. The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
- 134. The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
- 135. The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
- 136. The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
- 137. The hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You k ...
- 138. The life of the law has not been logic but experience.
- 139. The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
- 140. The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul th ...