Famous Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

“When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?”

A mind stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions.

“Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.”

“There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.”

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.