Author Topic: ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes ~ (Read 6147 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #45 on:** June 03, 2015, 03:52:49 PM »

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

MysteRy · « **Reply #46 on:** June 03, 2015, 03:53:51 PM »

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.

MysteRy · « **Reply #47 on:** June 03, 2015, 03:54:56 PM »

The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.

MysteRy · « **Reply #48 on:** June 03, 2015, 03:55:45 PM »

Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.

MysteRy · « **Reply #49 on:** June 03, 2015, 03:56:31 PM »

Greatness is not where we stand but in what direction we are moving.

MysteRy · « **Reply #50 on:** June 03, 2015, 03:57:28 PM »

Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.

MysteRy · « **Reply #51 on:** June 03, 2015, 03:58:12 PM »

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave but not our hearts.

MysteRy · « **Reply #52 on:** June 03, 2015, 03:59:02 PM »

Happiness consists in activity. It is running stream not a stagnant pool.

MysteRy · « **Reply #53 on:** June 03, 2015, 03:59:50 PM »

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

MysteRy · « **Reply #54 on:** June 03, 2015, 04:00:38 PM »

Speak clearly if you speak at all; Carve every word before you let it fall.

MysteRy · « **Reply #55 on:** June 03, 2015, 04:01:28 PM »

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

MysteRy · « **Reply #56 on:** June 03, 2015, 04:02:16 PM »

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

MysteRy · « **Reply #57 on:** June 03, 2015, 04:03:02 PM »

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not improve.

MysteRy · « **Reply #58 on:** June 03, 2015, 04:03:54 PM »

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

MysteRy · « **Reply #59 on:** June 03, 2015, 04:04:42 PM »

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime but spare the right-it holds my golden time!

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