Quotes
Quotes - Holmes
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of power and wisdom. Merry Browne -Marjorie Holmes.
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Speak not too well of one who scarce will know Himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, Remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It's my job.
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man.
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
The right to swing my fist ends where the other manâs nose begins.
The greatest act of faith is when man admits he is not god.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
Though they rushed back and forth across the country on the slightest pretext, gathering kicks along the way, the real journey was inward.
People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?
I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
