Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
feels knows
To know is not less than to feel.
book reading heart
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
dream real age
Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.
views tests favour
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
men names effort
One of the eternal conflicts out of which life is made up is that between the effort of every man to get the most he can for his services, and that of society, disguised under the name of capital, to get his services for the least possible return.
fate names nicknames
Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.
feelings arrogance democracy
Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility.
eye heart long
But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.
experience teach
Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.
glowing going-with-the-flow want
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
leadership sports disease
Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.
regulation discouragement income-tax
Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.
learning tests certainty
Certitude is not the test of certainty.
men fire liberty
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.