Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man`s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

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.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

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.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, "The medicines of the soul."

It`s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Love prefers twilight to daylight