Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Quotes

• “Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come ...”
• “My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want t...”
• “Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions...”
• “Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.”
• “Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”
• “There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.”
• “Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”
• “Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”
• “I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me”
• “Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.”