"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 ♥156SharePinTweet0 SharesWomen
"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 ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Beware how you take away hope from another human being" ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥54SharePinTweet0 SharesLove Quotes
"The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts" ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
"The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul" ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving - we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
"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 ♥22SharePinTweet0 SharesLife Quotes
"A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."" ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥17SharePinTweet1 SharesFriendship
" A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥23SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" On every stem, on every leaf ... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
