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Old age is fifteen years older than I am

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

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Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man has his will - but woman has her way.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love prefers twilight to daylight.

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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

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It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

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If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes
I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

By Oliver Wendell Holmes