Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Speak clearly if you speak at all, carve every word before you let it fall.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn’t worth a damn.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

A goose flies by a chart which the toyal geographical society could not mend.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.