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Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Youth fades love droops, the leaves of friendship fall ... Read Full Quote
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark ... Read Full Quote
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in th ... Read Full Quote
One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains ... Read Full Quote
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny ma ... Read Full Quote
It is by no means certain that our individual personali ... Read Full Quote
Beware how you take away hope from another human being. ... Read Full Quote
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to f ... Read Full Quote
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's ... Read Full Quote
If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and ... Read Full Quote
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to che ... Read Full Quote
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and ... Read Full Quote
The great thing in this world is not so much where you ... Read Full Quote
Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of ... Read Full Quote
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know ... Read Full Quote
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to ... Read Full Quote
I find the great thing in this world is not so much whe ... Read Full Quote
Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the ... Read Full Quote
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at trut ... Read Full Quote
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few season ... Read Full Quote
Every calling is great when greatly pursued. ... Read Full Quote
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared ou ... Read Full Quote
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something th ... Read Full Quote
A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back ... Read Full Quote
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not ... Read Full Quote
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's n ... Read Full Quote
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is i ... Read Full Quote
Taxes are the price we pay for civilization. ... Read Full Quote
People can be divided into two classes those who go ahe ... Read Full Quote
The right to be heard does not automatically include th ... Read Full Quote
Old age is fifteen years older than I am. ... Read Full Quote
The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived ... Read Full Quote
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effor ... Read Full Quote
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man ... Read Full Quote
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. ... Read Full Quote
No families take so little medicine as those of doctors ... Read Full Quote
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, bu ... Read Full Quote
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts r ... Read Full Quote
Man has his will - but woman has her way. ... Read Full Quote
No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out o ... Read Full Quote
Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word bef ... Read Full Quote
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to ... Read Full Quote
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the ... Read Full Quote
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experien ... Read Full Quote
A person is always startled when he hears himself serio ... Read Full Quote
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they a ... Read Full Quote
There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, ... Read Full Quote
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it ... Read Full Quote
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious ... Read Full Quote
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. ... Read Full Quote
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you t ... Read Full Quote
The character of every act depends upon the circumstanc ... Read Full Quote
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it ... Read Full Quote
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smok ... Read Full Quote
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The m ... Read Full Quote
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or ... Read Full Quote