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There are 108 quotes for the author Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Subject: Love & Romance

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
Subject: Life

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Subject: Facts

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Subject: Music

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Subject: Age

People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Subject: Quotations

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide - that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life - are alike forbidden.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

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