Oliver Wendell Holmes

(1303 votes)   We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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(2090 votes)   The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(593 votes)   The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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(498 votes)   The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(391 votes)   Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(388 votes)   The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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(375 votes)   Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(372 votes)   Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(369 votes)   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
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(368 votes)   With all humility, I think, ''Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.'' Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing, you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
1841-1935, American Judge

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(367 votes)   It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(354 votes)   I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
1841-1935, American Judge

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(305 votes)   What a comfort a dull but kindly person is, to be sure, at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(298 votes)   Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
1841-1935, American Judge

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(295 votes)   Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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