Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
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.
kings book reading
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
funny believe humor
I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.
men umpires worry
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
fear men imagination
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 implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.