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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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.