Oliver Wendell Holmes may refer to: (wikipedia)
Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.
Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.
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.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
