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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes


Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

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

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

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

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

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

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

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

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

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

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

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

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.