Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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.
Royal
Instinct
Society
Geographical
Nature
Goose
Chart
Mend
Geese
Flies
More quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.
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.
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist two to one, he is a pedant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
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.
Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
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.
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...
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.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
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.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
