Quote: People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still! [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: A page of history is worth a pound of logic. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: The Amen of nature is always a flower. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no facts at this table. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]
Quote: Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr]