Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

More from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

• I don’t generally feel anything until noon, then it’s time for my nap.

  • Sleep

• Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

  • Friendship

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

  • Thinking

All 50 quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy