"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Quotes


"A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“A man must get a thing before he can forget it.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

“A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.”  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Every calling is great when greatly pursued". ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, 

"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." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving; 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

"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quotes ...

"Man's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension."~ ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore! ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (Patriotism)

"Share the passion and action of your time, at peril of being judged not to have lived." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes 

"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." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at, but they are the smiles that make wrinkles and not dimples." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

"There's nothing that keeps its youth so far as I know, but a tree and truth." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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