Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
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.
Hundred
Least
Education
Child
Born
Political
Children
Years
Begin
More quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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.
The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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.
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.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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.
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
