3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes 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!
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes Controversy equalizes fools and wise men – and the fools know it.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes 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.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes 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.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes 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?
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes 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.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes 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.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
