266 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Men do not quit playing because they grow old—they grow old because they quit playing.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

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

To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift nor lie at anchor.

All of us love companionship and sympathy; some of us may love them too much. All of us are more or less imaginative in our theology.

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.