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.
- “The Height of the Ridiculous”, Poems (1836)
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One Nation evermore!“Voyage of the Good Ship Union”, in The Atlantic Monthly (March 1862) pp. 398-400And silence, like a poultice, comes
To heal the blows of sound.“To an Insect”, Poems (1836)How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 3The freeman casting with unpurchased hand
The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.“Poetry, a Metrical Essay”, Poems (1836)The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer.
The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. 11The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 6To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
“On the Seventieth Birthday of Julia Ward Howe” (May 27, 1889); reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)- The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 1
- The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. 5
- Address at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society (30 May 1860)
- The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872), Ch. 1
- The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 12
- The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 2
- The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 2
