Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

Consider the following quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes:

"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times."

"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. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your f"

"Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite."

"A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time."

"Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned."

"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

"To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hop"

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