10 top oliver wendell holmes sr quotes
- A man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
- What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
- Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
- It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
- Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
- 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.
- Many people die with their music still in them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it time runs out.
- The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
- The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
- When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
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