Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Home, Love, May

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friendship, Rose, Breathing

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Wisdom, Young, Old

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Wedding, Love, Happiness

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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Music, Time, Live

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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friendship, Yourself, Person

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Great, Kiss, Deal

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friendship, Friend, Special

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Great, Moving, Stand

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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life, Good, Bad

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Mind, Often, Insanity

We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Old, Playing, Grow

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Freedom, Hate, Thought

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Truth, Football, Evening

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Men, Old, Playing

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Art, Life, Picture

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

Music, Win, Die

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Age, Old, Older

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

Lie, Sometimes, Against

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Justice, Law, Young

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Hope, Human, Away

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

May, Cannot, Question

When in doubt, do it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Two, Between, Force

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Children, Done, Pretty

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 29, 1809

Died: October 8, 1894

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