Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. More Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. More Quotes From Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. feethomeretirement Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. runningmenthinking See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. politicalplaymen Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. dronesalivefifty Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. maidsshademight No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. doctorsmedicinelying Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. humanstroubleworld Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. wisemenway America is the only place where man is full-grown! Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. militarymenamerica Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. libraryshouldtrying Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea! Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. lifepastart Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. madhurtmen Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. differencesdogknows Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. quiltstimechildren People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. tryingmeanpeople For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. drysticksreligious Cupid "the little greatest enemy." Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. littleslifeenemy Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor! Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. sufferinglovechildren The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. atheismmenfall Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. angelbirthdaywind
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