Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes Quotations

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Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it out of wood, you must make it out of words.
	- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Random]

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
	- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Education] [Ideas] [Dreams]

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.
	- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Education]

To brag little, to lose well, To crow gently if in luck, To pay up, to own up, To shut up if beaten, Are the virtues of a sportingman.
	- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Luck]

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
	- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Music]

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
	- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Mothers]

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
	- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Mothers]

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, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Gardens]

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
	- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Science]

Science is the topography of ignorance.
	- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Science]

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, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Opportunity]

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, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Books]

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
	- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Integrity]

The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.
	- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Justice]

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
	- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Justice]

Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.
	- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Speaking]

Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
	- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Honesty]

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch, nay, you may kick it all about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
	- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Truth]

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. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
	- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Friendship]

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
	- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes	more quotations on [Friendship]

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