82 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

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 sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

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.

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.