Oliver Wendell Holmes on Hope & Dreams
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes on Facts
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes on Doubt
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Quotations Qoute by Oliver Wendell Holmes
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes on Art / Music
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Oliver Wendell Holmes on Life
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes on Age
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes on Love & Romance
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.