Famous Quotes
278 Quotations with Holmes.
- 21. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.
- 22. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.
- 23. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The life of the law has not been logic but experience.
- 24. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming."
- 25. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
- 26. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people.
- 27. Oliver Wendell Holmes: It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to l ...
- 28. Oliver Wendell Holmes: The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- 29. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Man has his will - but woman has her way
- 30. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Nobody talks much who doesn't say unwise things - things he did not mean to say. ...
- 31. Oliver Wendell Holmes: There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualiti ...
- 32. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Heredity: An omnibus in which all our ancestors ride, and every now and then, on ...
- 33. Oliver Wendell Holmes: It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth look ...
- 34. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope ...
- 35. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like
- 36. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Old age is fifteen years older than I am
- 37. Oliver Wendell Holmes: I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what d ...
- 38. Arthur Conan Doyle: It was on a bitterly cold night and frosty morning, towards the end of the winte ...
- 39. Richard Holmes: A biography is like a handshake down the years, that can become an arm-wrestle.
- 40. Oliver Wendell Holmes: A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.