Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes.
All 9 quotations by Oliver Wendell Holmes in our collection.
“Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.”
“Beware how you take away hope from another human being.”
“Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?”
“Old age is fifteen years older than I am.”
“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”
“Have the courage to act instead of react.”
“I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a d--n.”
“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.”
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