266 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

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

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

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

Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

In this snug, oversafe corner of the world we need it, that we may realize that our comfortable routine is no eternal necessity of things, but merely a little space of calm in the midst of the tempestuous untamed streaming of the world, and in order that we may be ready for danger.

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

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.