Oliver Wendell Holmes

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The human mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Simple people are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

We're not retreating, Hell! We're just attacking in different direction!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

When 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 Holmes

Don'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 Holmes

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

There 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 Holmes

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A 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

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

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 which opens the gates of happiness.

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

The human mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

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

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Simple people are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

We're not retreating, Hell! We're just attacking in different direction!

When 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.

Don'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.

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!

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

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

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

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.