The best Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The best Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. Grouped among the fireside poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858).

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

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

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

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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

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Love Feelings & Emotions

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

Experience Age Rules

The Amen of nature is always a flower.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

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You're gonna like Massachusetts. It's very patriotic - perfect for a fresh start.

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I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Uma Thurman

I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Warren

The man in the White House is not the cause of what is broken, he is just the latest and most extreme symptom of what's gone wrong in America. A product of a rigged system that props up the rich and powerful and kicks dirt on everyone else.

Elizabeth Warren (as Senator of Massachusetts) - February 9, 2019

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

Mitt Romney

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

George W. Bush

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Massachusetts - and that's pretty much the same thing.

No one has ever been delighted to be in Boston in December. December? What are you excited about? "Oh, I love chapped lips and getting thrown up on by Patriots fans, how peachy."

Trevor Noah in The Daily Show - December 2022

New England Patriots Boston

Welcome to Boston, where the weather is made up and the seasons don't matter.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Bill Bryson

Let's be honest: There's no better college town than Boston.

We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything about Boston is unique. It isn't one thing. Boston is its own deal.

When you think about Boston, Harvard and M.I.T. are the brains of the city, and its soul might be Faneuil Hall or the State House or the Old Church. But I think the pulsing, pounding heart of Boston is Fenway Park.

John Williams

If you haven't taken pics on Acorn Street, strolled through the Public Garden, or kayaked on the Charles, do you actually live in Boston?

Boston is a city that has the power to convince you to change what teams you root for.

Boston Boston Celtics

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

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You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

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Love Hurting Sad Quotes

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

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Love Relationships

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Ronald Reagan

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Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love You

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For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can't get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep you never want to come up for air. You can't cheat your first kiss. Trust me, you don't want to. Cause when you find that right person for a first kiss, it's everything.

Alex Karev in Grey's Anatomy - Season 2 Episode 7

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A kiss is something you need both hands for.

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Peeta: "I would love to stop this moment, here and now, and live in it forever."

Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire

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Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

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Memories Moments

But he was home. Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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It's like you're homesick for a place that doesn't even exist.

Garden State

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Desire Breakup Home

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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Courage Adventures Feet

I wanted to run away that day, but you can't run away from your own feet.

Flint Lockwood in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

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Character Self-Deception Feet

Emotions are most dangerous when silenced.

Hwei, the Visionary in League of Legends

Feelings & Emotions

It's normal to understand something logically but emotionally feel something different.

Hannah Grace

Feelings & Emotions Mind vs. Heart

Simba: "Ouh. Jeez, what was that for?"
Rafiki: "It doesn't matter, it's in the past."
Simba: "Yeah, but it still hurts."
Rafiki: "Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it."

Rafiki in The Lion King

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Experience Past

Oh yes. The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

Rafiki in The Lion King

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Experience Past

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

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Children & Childhood Birthday Age

You're never too old to be young.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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Can't change the world by following all the rules.

Kiriko in Overwatch

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Hermione: "I mean, it's sort of exciting isn't it? Breaking the rules."
Ron: "Who are you and what have you done with Hermione Granger?"

Ron Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Hermione Granger Rules

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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