Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

#Friendship

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The...

#Friendship

A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases...

#Age, #Funny

Beware how you take away hope from any human being

#Hope

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

#Happiness

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man...

#Passion

Age, like distance, lends a double charm.

#Age, #Funny

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

#History

There are a good many real miseries in life that we cannot help smiling at,...

#Smile, #Smiling

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

#Imagination

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men -...

#Women

The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that...

#Women