266 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.

Certainly generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

A man's mind stretched by a new idea, can never go back to its original dimensions.

Old age is like an opium-dream. Nothing seems real except what is unreal.

Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.