Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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  • It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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  • A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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  • 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!
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  • A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.
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  • A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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  • A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
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  • A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions.
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  • A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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  • A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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  • A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
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  • A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
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  • A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.
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  • A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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  • A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
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  • Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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  • And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound.
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  • And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
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  • Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
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What are the most famous quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes?

The two most famous quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes are:

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

When did Oliver Wendell Holmes live?

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