Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Children

Education

Years

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

Change

Dream

Love

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

Age

Inspiration

Men

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

Angel

Men

Sex

As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.

Book

Thinking

Years

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have – Cincinnati sounds worse.

Chicago

Cities

Sound

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way – and the fools know it.

Men

Way

Wise

Don’t be ‘consistent,’ but be simply true.

Consistent

Don’t you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

Feet

Home

Retirement

Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

Differences

Dog

Knows

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Beautiful Women

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Believe

Best Friend

Birthday

Blossoming

Book

Breeding

Business

Change

Chicago

Children

Cities

Civilization

Consistent

Courage

Crazy

Dating

Dawn

Delay

Differences

Doe

Dog

Done

Dream

Education

Ems

Evil

Existence

Eye

Fall

Fear

Feet

Flower

Friendship

Funny

Giving

Golden

Gone

Hate

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Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

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

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

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have – Cincinnati sounds worse.

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way – and the fools know it.

Don’t be ‘consistent,’ but be simply true.

Don’t you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

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