278 Quotations with Holmes.
- 1. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what directi ...

- 2. Oliver Wendell Holmes: There's nothing that keeps its youth,
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- 3. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

- 4. Oliver Wendell Holmes: To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

- 5. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that ...

- 6. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

- 7. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things ...

- 8. Marjorie Holmes: A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instant ...

- 9. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those ...

- 10. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must ...

- 11. Oliver Wendell Holmes: A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.

- 12. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

- 13. Oliver Wendell Holmes: There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects ...

- 14. Oliver Wendell Holmes: A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

- 15. John Andrew Holmes: Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often ...

- 16. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

- 17. Oliver Wendell Holmes: A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man fo ...

- 18. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see n ...

- 19. Oliver Wendell Holmes: When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best b ...

- 20. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.

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