Category: Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

“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 Holmes

“Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes