Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Topics: Friendship Quotes

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says,...

Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says,...

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown...

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown...

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them:...

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them:...

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds...

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds...

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each...

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each...

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he...

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he...

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great...

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great...

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in...

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul.

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;...

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility;...

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

I love to doubt as well as know.

I love to doubt as well as know.

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or...

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or...

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

Important principles may and must be inflexible.