Quotes of Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“ Close your eyes, take your time and listen. ”

- Maxime Lagacé

“ I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. ”

- Shel Silverstein

“ Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. ”

- Helen Keller

“ Love alone could waken love. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring. ”

- Pat Cher

“ The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ”

- Robert Frost

“ No matter what you do in life, make sure your juniors are learning something good from you. ”

- Parul Prashar

“ The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. ”

- Karl Lagerfeld

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ”

- Andrew Carnegie

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can. ”

- Nicholas Sparks

“ Live every day like it’s your last. ”

- Unknown

“ A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Life is a series of pulls back and forth... A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. Most of us live somewhere in the middle. A wrestling match...Which side win? Love wins. Love always wins ”

- Mitch Albom

“ Don't let him take who you are. Make him fear who you'll become. ”

- Mary Weber

“ The way you handle fear determines the results you have in life. If you are equipped with knowledge, you can overcome fear ”

- H. J. Chammas

“ She believed she could so she did. ”

- Unknown

“ Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. ”

- Joan Crawford

“ Hope is a waking dream. ”

- Aristotle

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia