Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
American Writer
Born: Aug 29, 1809
Died: Oct 7, 1894
Every Life Man Old World You
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Happiness Love Jealousy Love Is Key Fear Hatred Master Easily Wedding Most Opens Gate Gates
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, Sr.
Great Great Deal Kiss Lasts Echo Longer Deal Sound Loud Romantic Cannon
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Great Lie World Sometimes Wind Sail Anchor Must Find Drift Direction Reach Great Thing Nor Heaven Where Against Moving Much Stand Port Thing
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Friendship Rose Every Fold Breathing Sweets
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
People Will Sail Few Rudder Willing Steer Take Most Mount Flag Which Use Sermon
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
You Communication Speak Word Fall Before Every Carve Clearly
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, Sr.
Music Time People Before Live Too Out Runs Know Because Ready Always Still Die Getting Often Them Many Why
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, Sr.
Truth Day You Truth Is Will Tough Kick All Day About Touch Bubble Football Like May Break Full Nay Evening Round
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Friendship You Become Relation On The Contrary Say Tact More Disagreeable Come Courtesy Contrary Person Flatter Your Nearer Things Necessary
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.
Lie Sometimes Wind Sail Anchor Must Drift Reach Against Port
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Mind Insanity Logic Accurate Often
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Wise Men Fools Way Wise Men Know Same Controversy
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Friendship Morning Welcome Old Our Shared Days Like Praise His Friend Greeting Old Friend Homage Who
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Life Time Man Passion Action Think I Think Share He Peril Judged His Being Being Judged Required Should Lived
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Life Faith Worth Enthusiasm Living Worth Living Something Makes
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Wish Nothing Remarkable
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Old Men Because Quit Grow Playing
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Wisdom Knowledge Speak Province Privilege Listen
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Lie Tools Sin Fits Handle Which Them Many
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Day Man Woman Sex Angel Would Rather Never Talk She Than Forgets Any Her
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Old Because Quit Grow Playing
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Respect World Pretty Like Done Children Them Much Honest
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Sometimes Old Young Seventy Hopeful More Cheerful Years Than Far Forty Forty Years
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
You Light Mind Pour Eye Pupil More Contracts Bigot
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Wisdom Future Beauty Past Promise Abstract
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Time Man Old Seriously First He Himself First Time Always Hears Person Old Man Startled
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