Dr. J. A. Holmes Quotes

If you don't follow Don King, you get stepped on.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

Everything necessary to the full and complete expression of the most boundless experience of joy is mine now.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

I'm not the easiest person to live with. I'm kind of a slob. So for me to consider a roommate, it would have to be one of my sisters or something.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

Every role that you don't get burns you for a while.

Definitely trust yourself. Work hard. Be honest with yourself. And life can be joyful. It is joyful. Just give it your all and it's all going to work out.

And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.

I liked the rain. It made it harder, the harder the better. I didn't see accidents but there are a lot of broken cars out there.

It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me 10 black guys and I make eight dollars. Give me Gerry Cooney and I make $10 million.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

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?

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

Technology has an incredible role to play in enabling of policy issues.

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.

I became depressed and I cut my self with scissors and stuff.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

It's kind of fun being the cute, little one. In fact, I'm finding it hard to grow out of that.

I'm just going to say that I met somebody last year, I fell in love, I had my first love, and it was something so incredible and indescribable.

Definitely being a mom changes your perspective on everything.

I feel very lucky. I have a husband and baby that I adore. I have a career I really love. When I sit back and reflect, it's, like, wow! I am very grateful.

Cupid "the little greatest enemy."

Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.

For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

Jazz music hashaunted America for seventy years.It has tempted us out of our lily-white reserve with its black promise of untrammeled joy.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

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.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

Have the will to be well, to be happy, and to live in joy.

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.

Any thought which tends to inspire, to comfort, and to give peace to the mind is good.

With some diseases, like type 2 diabetes, if people get alerted early they can take steps to avert getting sick.

To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.