Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
library trying should
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
time quilts children
Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.
dog differences knows
Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.
hate science men
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.
education men political
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
consistent
Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
heart color brain
Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.
love inspirational life
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
wise men way
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
family mothers-day mom
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
ancestry signals breeding
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
genius may courses
You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.
spring tree age
And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.
alive fifty drones
Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.