Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Friendship
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. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Truth
Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Friendship
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Friendship
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Wedding
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Beauty
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Faith
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Great
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Imagination
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Great
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Music
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Wisdom
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Great