Quotes by : Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

We must think things not words or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for....

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.

Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.

Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the....

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.