Oliver Wendell Holmes Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes, Oliver Wendell Holmes sayings, and Oliver Wendell Holmes proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. Oliver Wendell Holmes
To many, the words love, hope, and dreams are synonymous with horses. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. Oliver Wendell Holmes
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Oliver Wendell Holmes
The mind like any other organism gradually shapes itself to what surrounds it, and resents disturbance in the form which its life has assumed. Oliver Wendell Holmes
In whose banks we deposit out notes Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears by lending them minutes and charging them years. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. Oliver Wendell Holmes
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up. Oliver Wendell Holmes
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. Oliver Wendell Holmes
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth looking at. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Age, like distance, lends a double charm. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes
You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. Oliver Wendell Holmes