~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

Except in cases of necessity which are rare leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell him.

[MysteRy]

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.

[MysteRy]

What a blessed thing it is that nature when she invented manufactured and patented her audiors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

[MysteRy]

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

[MysteRy]

Talking is like playing on the harp there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.

[MysteRy]

Life is action and passion; therefore it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

[MysteRy]

We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand if we are to keep to the real and the true.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

A sick man that gets talking about himself a woman that gets talking about her baby and an author that begins reading out of his own book never know when to stop.

[MysteRy]

After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.

[MysteRy]

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.

[MysteRy]

Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

[MysteRy]

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used could be sunk to the bottom of the sea it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.

[MysteRy]

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 time in which it is used.