Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?"
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"What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Over the Teacups
"Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"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 Sr.
"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."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Have the courage to act instead of react."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"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 Sr.
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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