Quotes
Quotes - Holmes
A general flavor of mild decay.
It went to pieces all at once--
All at once and nothing first,
Just as bubbles do when they burst.
The brightest blades grow dim with rust,
The fairest meadow white with snow.
When lawyers take what they would give
And doctors give what they would take.
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
God reigneth. All is well.
One unquestioned text we read,
All doubt beyond, all fear above;
Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed
Can burn or blot it--God is love.
If we are only as the potter's clay
Made to be fashioned as the artist wills,
And broken into shards if we offend
The eye of Him who made us, it is well.
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.
Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
There is that glorious epicurean paradox uttered by my friend the historian,in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries." To this must certainly be added that other saying of one of the wittiest of men:"Good Americans when they die go to Paris."
Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You could n't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar.
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Knowledge and timber should n't be much used till they are seasoned.
The hat is the ultimum moriens of respectability.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
Talking is like playing the harp; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
