266 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that – one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

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

Nothing is so common as the desire to be remarkable.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!

Don’t you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way – and the fools know it.