Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The quotations of
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
American poet and physician
1809–1894
50 quotes, most often on Thinking, Talking and Truth & Lies.
I don’t generally feel anything until noon, then it’s time for my nap.
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes- A Mortal Antipathy (1885)
Happiness consists in activity. It is running stream, not a stagnant pool.
- Valedictory address to medical graduates at Harvard University (10 March 1858), published in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. LVIII, No. 8 (25 March 1858), p. 158
- The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858).
