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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  • Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
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  • Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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  • Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
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  • Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
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  • Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.
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  • Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
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  • Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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  • Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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  • Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
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  • Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
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  • Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
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  • Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!
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  • Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.
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  • Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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  • Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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  • Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
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  • The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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  • The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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  • The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
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  • The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
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