“Love prefers twilight to daylight.”
Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table
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Famous Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes
Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table
“Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”
Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell
“Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.”
Source: Over the Teacups
“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
“Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: V5 & V6
“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”
Source: The Fundamental Holmes: A Free Speech Chronicle and Reader - Selections from the Opinions, Books, Articles, Speeches, Letters and Other Writings by and about Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”
Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table
“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.”
“A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.”
Source: The Poet at the Breakfast Table
Source: Poems 1
“Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.”
Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell
“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”
“A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.”
Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table
“Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.”
Source: Poems 2
Source: From Day to Day with Holmes
“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
Source: The Poet at the Breakfast Table
Source: The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes: His Speeches, Essays, Letters, and Judicial Opinions
“Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.”
Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table
“Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.”
Source: The Guardian Angel
Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table
Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell
Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell
Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell
Source: THE
Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table
Source: Pages From An Old Volume Of Life
“For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.”
Source: Over the Teacups
“Science is the topography of ignorance.”
Source: Medical Essays
“Man has his will, but woman has her way.”
Source: Poems 1
“Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.”
Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table
Source: The Poet at the Breakfast Table
Source: Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table
“I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me”
Source: The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.