1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet
I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – [Medicine]
I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – [Marriage]
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 – [Life and Living]
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – [Trouble]
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 – [Cooperation]
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – [Insanity]
It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – [Life and Living]
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – [Wisdom]
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – [Loneliness]
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – [Faith]
Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – [Knowledge]
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – [Language]
Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide –that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life –are alike forbidden.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – [Language]
Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – [Thoughts and Thinking]
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – [Love]
Love prefers twilight to daylight.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – [Retirement]
Man has will, but woman has her way.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – [Will and Will Power]
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – [Ideals and Idealism]
Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – [Ideas]
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes – [Ideas]
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