Oliver Wendell Holmes

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."

Świat jest zawsze gotowy do przyjmowania talentów z otwartymi ramionami. Bardzo często nie wie, co zrobić z geniuszem.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Ile osób żyje z reputacji reputacji, którą mogliby stworzyć!

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!

The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

Umysł człowieka, gdy rozciągnie się goszcząc nową ideę, nigdy nie wraca do pierwotnego rozmiaru.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Mężczyźni nie rzucają zabawy, ponieważ się starzeją; się starzeją, bo przestali grać.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

Fresh air is good if you don't take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.

Man has his will - but woman has her way.

Język jest krwią duszy, w którą wnikają myśli i z której one wyrastają.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

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

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries. - from Medical Essays

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way?'