43 quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Old age is fifteen years older than I am.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Have the courage to act instead of react.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Beware how you take away hope from another human being.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“The Amen of nature is always a flower.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a d--n.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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!” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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