Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr quotes American physician, professor, lecturer, and author. Born: 08/29/1809 Died: 10/07/1894 Country: usa

• People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [people/more]
• Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still! (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [speak/willpower/willpower]
• A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr)
• The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [vote/land]
• What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [comfort/more/eyes]
• Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [elegance]
• Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr)
• Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [nature]
• In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [willpower/intellect]
• Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr)
• Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [think/life/death/life]
• A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [magic/fame/music]
• Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [people]
• The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [wisdom/wisdom/willpower]
• What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr)
• The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [charm/music]
• Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [truth]
• Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [wish]
• A page of history is worth a pound of logic. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [logic]
• The Amen of nature is always a flower. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [nature/flower]
• The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [faith/god]
• Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr)
• The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [start/thing/think]
• All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no facts at this table. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [horror/facts/company/ingenious]
• Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [library]
• The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [talent/genius]
• Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [genius/genius/character/water]
• This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [right/]
• Apology is only egotism wrong side out. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr)
• Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [imagination/more]
• Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [love/master/happiness]

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