Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Topics: Feelings Quotes, Laughter Quotes, Tears Quotes

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...

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which...

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history...

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history...

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...

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...

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

And silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound

And silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound

Man has will, but woman has her way.

Man has will, but woman has her way.

The great end of living is to harmonize man with the order of things

The great end of living is to harmonize man with the order of things

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

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

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

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

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...

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it...

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it...

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

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

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.