Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
age-and-aging men playing
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
age age-and-aging good increases resemble tone true woman worth
A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone
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.
age youth aging
Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
inspiration men age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
dream real age
Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.
heart age youth
While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.
years age fifteen
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
aim
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.
fools men wise
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it
conversation dreadful pathway stick
And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
honest telling truth
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
awful begins bid brothers chorus dead death destinies glory good great joy lent life note orchestra passion powers seen sound unseen youth
Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death / of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will.
ahead divided humankind people sit
People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?