Quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes

After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.

Faith as an intellectual state is self-reliance.

Faith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.

The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

Life is a great bundle of little things.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth.

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

If a hug represented how much I loved you, I would hold you in my arms forever.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.