The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 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 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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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