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73 quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, professor, lecturer, and author based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, his peers acclaimed him as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He was also an important medical reformer. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Holmes...
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

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But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

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Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail... →

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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

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