Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Leverage is everything – don’t begin to pry until you’ve got the long arm on your side.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Love prefers twilight to daylight.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.