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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (29 August 1809 – 8 October 1894) was an American physician, writer, poet, and the father of US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Quotes
1. 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. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
2. Faith loves to lean on time's destroying arm,
And age, like distance, lends a double charm.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
3. A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
4. The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
5. Storms, thunders, waves!
Howl, crash, and bellow till ye get your fill;
Ye sometimes rest; men never can be still
But in their graves.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
6. 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.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
7. Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
8. To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
9. To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
10. Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
11. Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
12. Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
13. Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
14. A new untruth is better than an old truth.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
15. Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
16. There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
17. Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
18. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
19. Sweet shadows of twilight! How calm their repose, While the dewdrops fall soft in the breast of the rose! How blest to the toiler his hour of release When the vesper is heard with its whisper of peace!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
20. Life transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
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