Quotes of Oliver Wendell Holmes - somelinesforyou

“ The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“ To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“ Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman? ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“ Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“ A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“ A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“ Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“ A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ On every stem, on every leaf… and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“ Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“ Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“ The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

“ It’s a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ There’s nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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