Quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love prefers twilight to daylight

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Husband and wife come to look alike at last

The woman cries before the wedding; the man afterward.

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.

One's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its orginal dimensions.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

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

Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

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.