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"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858, More quotation on Quotations. |
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"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858, More quotation on Friendship. |
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"A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, More quotation on Age. |
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"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes. |
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"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, More quotation on Listening. |
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"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes. |
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"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes. |
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"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, More quotation on Music. |
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"The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes. |
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"To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes. |