82 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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

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

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

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

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

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