Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes and sayings page 6 (writer). Here's quote # 51 through 60 out of the 73 we have.
“I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”
“A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.”
“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.”
“Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.”
“What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!”
“The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.”
“Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.”
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
“Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.”
“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”
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