Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. More Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. More Quotes From Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. 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. running men thinking See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. political play men Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. drones alive fifty Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. maids shade might No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. doctors medicine lying 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. humans trouble world Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. wise men way Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. your-side advice long America is the only place where man is full-grown! Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. military men america Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. library should trying 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. life past art 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. mad hurt men Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. differences dog knows 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. quilts time children People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. trying mean people For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. dry sticks religious Cupid "the little greatest enemy." Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. littles life enemy Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor! Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. suffering love children 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. atheism men fall 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. angel birthday wind