Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right -- it holds my golden time!

A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull.

I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the sea.

Grateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that; one stitch at a time taken patiently, and the pattern will come out all right, like embroidery.

Life is a great bundle of little things.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be much use till they are seasoned.