Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. Oliver Wendell Holmes on time
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust. Oliver Wendell Holmes on trust
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 on truth
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. Oliver Wendell Holmes on truth
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes on wedding
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. Oliver Wendell Holmes on wisdom
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver Wendell Holmes on wisdom
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. Oliver Wendell Holmes on wisdom
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. Oliver Wendell Holmes on women
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. Oliver Wendell Holmes on work