Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
beauty past being-beautiful
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
education children years
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
book delay all-time
It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.
thinking freedom-of-speech may
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
hate civilization giving
I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me
morning cheer coffee
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.
blessed writing criticism
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!
funny-inspirational wish common
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
book reading long
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?
life love-is keys
Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
love funny life
Man has his will, but woman has her way.
running memories water
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.
running ears
Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
friendship best-friend sweet
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.