266 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side.

Cupid "the little greatest enemy."

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.