Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 1 Share Now -
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 2 Share Now -
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. 3 Share Now -
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 4 Share Now -
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 5 Share Now -
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 6 Share Now -
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. 8 Share Now -
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 9 Share Now -
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 10 Share Now -
