A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
God's plan made a hopeful beginning. But man spoiled his chances by sinning. We trust that the story will end in God's glory. But, at present, the other side's winning.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love Quotes
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Friendship Quotes
Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.