Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
change people fundamentals
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
men action thinker
The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.
history causes thread
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
lonely future play
I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.
sweet morning real
There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days, No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise: Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
human-nature imitation humans
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
thinking fame
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
sweet men decay
Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.
poverty charity pleading
Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.
greatness men nerves
A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.
wisdom years hopeful
What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
lying philosophy differences
The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.
destiny blood grandparent
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry.
aging timber used
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.