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

Quotes 121 till 139 of 139.

 Previous 5 6 7
  • To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    - +
     0
  • To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    - +
     0
  • To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    - +
     0
  • Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    - +
     0
  • Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    - +
     0
  • Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    - +
     0
  • We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    - +
     0
  • 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.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    - +
     0
  • What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    - +
     0
  • What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    - +
     0
  • When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    - +
     0
  • Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    - +
     0
  • Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    - +
     0
  • Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    - +
     0
  • Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    - +
     0
  • Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    - +
     0
  • A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    - +
    -1
  • A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    - +
    -1
  • God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    - +
    -1
 Previous 5 6 7
All Oliver Wendell Holmes famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 7)

Popular subjects

Popular authors