Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes quote

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.
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Man is a sporting as well as a praying animal.
Oliver Wendell Holmes quote

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes quote

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes quote

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
Oliver Wendell Holmes quote

Death tugs at my ear and says: 'Live, I am coming'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes quote

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes quote

Biography

American writer and poet