Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Age: 85 †
Born: 1809
Born: August 29
Died: 1894
Died: October 7
Medical Writer
Novelist
Physician
Physician Writer
Poet
University Teacher
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sr.
Apologizing
Apology
Ego
Side
Sides
Wrong
Egotism
More quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The best servant does his work unseen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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 Sr.
Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I like children I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
