Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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.
Strife
Aging
Strive
Youth
Age
Longs
Remember
Strives
Remembers
Manhood
More quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
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.
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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.
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.
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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.
Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
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.
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
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.
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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 Sr.
