82 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

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.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.