Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. History
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Respect
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. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Science
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, Sr. Romantic
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Jealousy
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Friendship
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Science
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Morning
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Friendship
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Fear
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Men
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Knowledge
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Future
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Happiness
A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Education
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Home
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Wisdom
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Wisdom
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Death
