Oliver Wendell Holmes
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Oliver Wendell HolmesWhere we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell HolmesSweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell HolmesLove is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell HolmesIt's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell HolmesThe human mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell HolmesEvery calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell HolmesAge, like distance, lends a double charm.
Oliver Wendell HolmesTo obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
Oliver Wendell HolmesBut friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell HolmesFame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell HolmesSimple people are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Oliver Wendell HolmesInsanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Oliver Wendell HolmesA new untruth is better than an old truth.
Oliver Wendell HolmesWe're not retreating, Hell! We're just attacking in different direction!
Oliver Wendell HolmesWhen men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe that the ultimate good is better reached by free trade in ideas.
Oliver Wendell HolmesDon't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell HolmesHow many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
Oliver Wendell HolmesThe sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but it's echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell HolmesThe great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell HolmesSin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all
Oliver Wendell HolmesNature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left.
Oliver Wendell HolmesThere are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.
Oliver Wendell HolmesLanguage is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell HolmesA man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
