Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes


90 Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes:



"The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Words Quotes
"The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Vision Quotes
"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"A new untruth is better than an old truth."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Trust Quotes
"Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Thoughts And Thinking Quotes
"Carve every word before you let it fall."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Thoughts And Thinking Quotes
"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Speech Quotes
"Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Society Quotes
"And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Silence Quotes
"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Secrets Quotes
"Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Revolutions And Revolutionaries Quotes
"Love prefers twilight to daylight."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Retirement Quotes
"It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Quote of the Day Quotes
"For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone -- when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will -- then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -- the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do -- can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Purpose Quotes
"Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Praise Quotes
"We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Opinions Quotes
"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Music Quotes
"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body."
Author: Holmes Quotes Category: Music Quotes



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