Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.””

“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.””

“I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.””

“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.””

“The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.””

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

“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.””

“For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.””

“The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.””

“The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.””

“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.””

“Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.””

“Beware how you take away hope from another human being””

“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.””