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There are 108 quotes for the author Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

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.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!

It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.

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

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming".

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

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.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

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.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

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