Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr quotes

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

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

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

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

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.

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

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

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Have the courage to act instead of react.

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.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

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

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

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

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

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

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

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.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

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

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

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

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.