Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Professions : Physician Born : August 29, 1809 Died : October 7, 1894 Browse All Authors Top 112 quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. mind love insanity The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. kissing dream love A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. wisdom-experience business inspirational Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. best-friend sweet friendship The best servant does his work unseen. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. unseen servant doe I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ems done children Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. keys love-is life The Amen of nature is always a flower. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. blossoming nature flower Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. philosophy civilization art I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. hate giving civilization Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. running water memories The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. umpires worry men As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. book years thinking When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman? Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. women inspiration thinking 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. truth football lying Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. inspirational love life Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. breeding ancestry signals A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. aggravation blow character Science is the topography of ignorance. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. topography ignorance science What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred? Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. reading long book Similar Authors Abram Hoffer physician Buwei Yang Chao physician Broda Otto Barnes physician Brian Day physician Anna Komnene physician Axel Munthe physician All Authors