Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
inspirational life success
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
love inspirational life
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
inspirational business wisdom-experience
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
funny-inspirational wish common
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
inspirational funny spiritual
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
inspirational eye science
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
inspirational life death
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
inspirational life motivational
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
inspirational motivational work
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
inspirational wise travel
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
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.