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Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes

American writer and poet

Lived from: 1809 - 1894

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 29 august 1809 Died: 7 october 1894

  • Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
  • Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
  • The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
  • 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.
  • What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.
  • Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.
  • I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
  • People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
  • As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
  • Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
  • The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.
  • The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
  • Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
  • Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
  • Man has his will, but woman has her way.
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  • 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.
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  • Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
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  • Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
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  • The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
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  • The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
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  • The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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  • The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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What are the most famous quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes?

The two most famous quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes are:

  • "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."
  • "Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age."

When did Oliver Wendell Holmes live?

Oliver Wendell Holmes was born in 1809 and died in the year 1894.