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

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal...

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal...

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...

Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind,...

Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind,...

If a hug represented how much I loved you, I would hold you in my...

If a hug represented how much I loved you, I would hold you in my...

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death...

Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death...

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal...

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal...

Husband and wife come to look alike at last

Husband and wife come to look alike at last

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how...

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how...

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot...

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot...

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell...

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell...

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It...

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It...

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...

Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct - if you can call that a...

Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct - if you can call that a...

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general...

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general...

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of...

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of...

When in doubt, do it.

When in doubt, do it.