Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
physician, poet, physician writer, university teacher, novelist, medical writer, writer
Read on Wikipedia1809 – 1894
All Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.”
“Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.”
“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.”
“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”
“But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.”
“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”
“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.”
“Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
“Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.”
“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”
“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.”
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
“Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.”
“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.”
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.”
“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.”
“I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.”
“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.”
“Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.”
“Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.”
“Love prefers twilight to daylight.”