Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,– Snuffy old — Oliver Wendell Holmes
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions — Jr., Oliver Wendell Holmes
Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. — Jr., Oliver Wendell Holmes
When the style is fully formed, if it has a sweet undersong, we call it beautiful — Oliver Wendell Holmes
I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? too often it is because they — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
For him in vain the envious seasons roll, who bears eternal summer in his soul. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
A good and true woman is said to resemble a cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone. — Oliver Wendell Holmes