266 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.