266 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

The true essentials of a feast are only fun and feed.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it with the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

Yellow japanned buttercups and star-disked dandelions, just as we see them lying in the grass, like sparks that have leaped from the kindling sun of summer.

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured.

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

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.