Author Topic: ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes ~ (Read 6140 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #60 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:39:49 PM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #61 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:40:46 PM »

Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.

MysteRy · « **Reply #62 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:41:38 PM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #63 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:42:43 PM »

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

MysteRy · « **Reply #64 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:43:33 PM »

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

MysteRy · « **Reply #65 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:44:20 PM »

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

MysteRy · « **Reply #66 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:45:19 PM »

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have: Cincinnati sounds worse.

MysteRy · « **Reply #67 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:46:11 PM »

The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

MysteRy · « **Reply #68 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:47:02 PM »

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.

MysteRy · « **Reply #69 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:48:04 PM »

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

MysteRy · « **Reply #70 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:49:08 PM »

When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.

MysteRy · « **Reply #71 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:51:44 PM »

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men.

MysteRy · « **Reply #72 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:54:38 PM »

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

MysteRy · « **Reply #73 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:55:40 PM »

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.

MysteRy · « **Reply #74 on:** June 03, 2015, 08:57:42 PM »

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

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