Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

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

Young, Old, Sometimes

A new untruth is better than an old truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Death, Character, Both

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thought, Often, Times

Don't be 'consistent' but be simple true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

True, Simple, Consistent

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love, Home, Stay

Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fire, May, Reason

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Faith, End, Words

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

God, Lonely, Trying

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thoughts, Soul, Language

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

Men, Best, Young

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Beauty, Future, Wisdom

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Society, Royal, Flies

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Great, After, Old

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sex, Woman, Talk

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Worse, Comfort, Sounds

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Two, Sense, Common

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

History, Try, Library

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

Real, Thought, Wind

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

Thinking, Else, Fame

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Grow, Loves, Outgrow

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Done, Made, Beginning

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Science, Hate, End

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Best, Him, Team

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Mind, Another, Ideas

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 29, 1809

Died: October 8, 1894

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