Facts about Oliver Wendell Holmes 
Summary
Oliver Wendell Holmes was a famous Writer from USA, who lived between August 29, 1809 and October 8, 1894.
Biography
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, professor, lecturer and author.
Holmes was by his peers considered one of the best writers of the 19th century and he is recognized as an important medical reformer. Holmes was educated at Phillips Academy and Harvard College. After graduating from Harvard in 1829 Holmes studied for a shorter period of law school before he began as a doctor. He began writing poetry at an early age, one of his most famous work, "Old Iron Sides", was released in 1830. After completing training from several of the most prestigious medical schools in Paris, was granted Holmes's medical education at Harvard Medical School in 1836. He taught at Dartmouth Medical School before returning to teach at Harvard University, and for a time, he served as dean there. During his long professorship at several universities, the Holmes a spokesman for various medical reforms.
Holmes retired from his professorship at Harvard in 1882 and he continued to write poems, novels and essays until his death in 1894. Many of his literary works were published in the magazine The Atlantic Monthly. For his literary achievements and other accomplishments, he was awarded numerous honorary degrees from universities around the world. Holmes writing often reminded his native Boston area, and much of it was meant to be humorous, or conversation. Some of Holmes's medical writings, especially his essay on puerperal fever infection, which was published in 1843, was considered innovative for its time. Holmes was admired by the writer Arthur Conan Doyle, who spent his last name when he invented the fictional novel the character and the detective Sherlock Holmes. Zodiac etc.
He is born under the zodiac virgo, who is known for Analyzing, Practical, Reflective, Observation, Thoughtful.
Our collection contains 78 quotes who is written / told by Oliver, under the main topics: Art, Friendship, Home, Men, Science.
Related authors: Arthur Conan Doyle
Source / external links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes
Famous quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (78)
"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing"
"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor"
"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum"
"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts"
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness"
"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust"
"Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer"
"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn"
"Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection"
"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived"
"Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future"
"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size"
"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth"
"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children"
"Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks"
"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living"
"The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men"
"People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'"
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions"
"Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left"
"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"
"Old age is fifteen years older than I am"
"If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end"
"We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing"
"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light"
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening"
"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor"
"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old"
"To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences"
"Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing"
"This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice"
"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving"
"The Amen of nature is always a flower"
"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books"
"Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise"
"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad"
"Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding"
"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall"
"Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good"
"Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them"
"Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking"
"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel"
"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out"
"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up"
"Love prefers twilight to daylight"
"Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow"
"Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned"
"He has half the deed done who has made a beginning"
"Have the courage to act instead of react"
"Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool"
"Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us"
"Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air"
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else"
"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other"
"Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads"
"Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason"
"Every calling is great when greatly pursued"
"Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end"
"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"
"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"
"Don't be "consistent" but be simple true"
"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant"
"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it"
"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse"
"Beware how you take away hope from another human being"
"Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force"
"Apology is only egotism wrong side out"
"A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day"
"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times"
"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide"
"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time"
"A new untruth is better than an old truth"
"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve"
"A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened"
"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend"
"A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"
"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold"
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