01c. 1809 ADEvery year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
02c. 1809 ADThe longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
03c. 1809 ADCertitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
05c. 1809 ADThe morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
07c. 1809 ADA moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
08c. 1809 ADThe life of the law has not been logic it has been experience.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
10c. 1809 ADFaith implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
11c. 1809 ADThe great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
12c. 1809 ADFame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
13c. 1809 ADCertainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
14c. 1809 ADThe man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
15c. 1809 ADGrateful for the blessing lent of simple tastes and mind content!Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
17c. 1809 ADDon't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
18c. 1809 ADExcept in cases of necessity which are rare leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell him.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
19c. 1809 ADWithout wearing any mask we are conscious of we have a special face for each friend.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
20c. 1809 ADLife is an end in itself and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
21c. 1809 ADOne unquestioned text we read All doubt beyond all fear above Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it: God is Love.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
22c. 1809 ADLife is a romantic business but you have to make the romance.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
23c. 1809 ADHeredity is an omnibus in which all our ancestors ride and every now and then one of them puts his head out and embarrasses us.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
24c. 1809 ADA man is a kind of inverted thermometer the bulb uppermost and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote ↗
