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Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Youth fades love droops, the leaves of friendship fall A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
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?
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but sail we must and not drift nor lie at anchor
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
By Oliver Wendell Holmes