Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

A man may fulfil the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

A new untruth is better than an old truth. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Age, like distance, lends a double charm. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

Apology is only egotism wrong side out. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)