Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Related Quotes:

" Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left! "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" 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.

" Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Love prefers twilight to daylight. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. "

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, Sr.

" Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks? "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.