Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#doing #life #painting #picture #sum

Love prefers twilight to daylight. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#love #prefers #twilight

Beware how you take away hope from another human being. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#another #away #being #beware #how

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

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#associations #channel #imagination #memories #more

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#flag #most #mount #people #rudder

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Old age is fifteen years older than I am. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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