12 Quotes By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on age

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on doubt

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on fame

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on fashion

Rough work, iconoclasm, - but the only way to get at truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on heresy

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on mother

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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on music

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on neighbor

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on science

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on truth

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on wit

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. on women