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

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  • 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.
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  • Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
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  • Carve every word before you let it fall.
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  • Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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  • 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.
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  • Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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  • Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
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  • Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
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  • Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
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  • Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
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  • Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
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  • Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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  • Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
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  • Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
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  • Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.
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  • Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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  • How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
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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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  • I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.
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  • I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
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