Quotes from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A good and true woman is said to resemble a Cremona fiddle: age but increases its worth and sweetens its tone.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Husband and wife come to look alike at last
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it ? but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.