Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes about
bullying two common-sense
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
business giving simplicity
For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.
women inspiration thinking
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
birthday angel hands
Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
honesty truth iconoclasm
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
science men common-sense
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
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.
wise men way
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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.
race white politics
The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.
life ocean existence
Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.
children suffering may
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
long use answers
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.