Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.
There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul's garden, which I love to have watered once a week.
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?
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.
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?
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.
