Author Topic: ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes ~ (Read 5540 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #75 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:19:52 PM »

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

MysteRy · « **Reply #76 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:20:24 PM »

Youth fades; love droops the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

MysteRy · « **Reply #77 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:20:56 PM »

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.

MysteRy · « **Reply #78 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:21:36 PM »

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

MysteRy · « **Reply #79 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:25:14 PM »

A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

MysteRy · « **Reply #80 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:26:21 PM »

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow I look back.

MysteRy · « **Reply #81 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:27:02 PM »

I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

MysteRy · « **Reply #82 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:27:37 PM »

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it the more it will contract.

MysteRy · « **Reply #83 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:28:10 PM »

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.

MysteRy · « **Reply #84 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:29:02 PM »

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

MysteRy · « **Reply #85 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:30:13 PM »

Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

MysteRy · « **Reply #86 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:31:42 PM »

I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.

MysteRy · « **Reply #87 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:32:47 PM »

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

MysteRy · « **Reply #88 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:33:49 PM »

We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it but sail we must and not drift nor lie at anchor.

MysteRy · « **Reply #89 on:** July 08, 2015, 09:35:37 PM »

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common sense on the ground floor.

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