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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet · 120 quotes
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“Love prefers twilight to daylight.”
Retirement
“The Amen of nature is always a flower.”
Flowers
“Apology is only egotism wrong side out.”
Excuses
“Age, like distance lends a double charm.”
Age and Aging
“Good Americans when they die, go to Paris.”
America
“A new untruth is better than an old truth.”
Truth
“Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”
Stupidity
“Every calling is great when greatly pursued.”
Work
“Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.”
Change
“It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.”
Loneliness
“Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.”
Beauty
“Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.”
Ancestry
“Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.”
Truth
“To live is to function. That is all there is in living.”
Life and Living
“Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.”
Commonplace
“This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.”
Law and Lawyers
“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.”
Truth
“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”
Trust
“Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.”
Love
“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
Insights
“Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.”
Rules
“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.”
Insanity
“A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.”
Soldier
“And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound.”
Silence
“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.”
Sin
“The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.”
Achievement
“Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.”
Conceit