Don’t ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever were there, they are there still. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: poetry age joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: mind learning knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Old age is fifteen years older than I am. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: age Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: thought originality repitition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: knowledge certainty infinite civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: life Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: listening Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: men and women Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: music Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In youth we learn; in age we understand. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: trouble Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email