Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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.

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

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

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.