Quotes by : Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The....

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.....

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked

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

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

The Last LeafI saw him once before,As he passed by the door,And againThe pavement stones resound,As he....

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its....

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground....