Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes

• Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspiración, Vida, Muerte

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• Man has his will, but woman has her way.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Amor, Divertido, Vida

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.405, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Para llegar a un puerto debemos navegar, a veces con el viento y a veces contra él. Pero no debemos ir a la deriva ni fondear.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspiración, Vida, Motivación

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• Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

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  Happy Friday, People, Disrespectful

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• Ten el valor de actuar en lugar de reaccionar.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Courage, Veterans Day, Fear

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• Tener setenta años es a veces mucho más alegre y esperanzador que tener cuarenta.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Cumpleaños, Tiempo, Años

  Letter to Julia Ward Howe on her 70th birthday, 27 May (1889)

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• Es propio del conocimiento hablar, y es privilegio de la sabiduría escuchar.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Vida, Positivo, Sabiduría

  'The Poet at the Breakfast Table' (1872) ch. 10

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• La controversia iguala a tontos y sabios del mismo modo, y los tontos lo saben.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Wise, Men, Way

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.114, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Cuidado con quitar la esperanza a cualquier ser humano.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Life, Hope, Expectations

  Valedictory address to medical graduates at Harvard University on March 10, 1858. The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume LVIII, No. 8, p. 158, March 25, 1858.

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• The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

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  Inspirational, Eye, Science

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.144, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Habla claro, si es que hablas; esculpe cada palabra antes de dejarla caer.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Fall, Communication, Words You Speak

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.125, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Funny, Spiritual

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• Donde amamos está nuestro hogar, un hogar que nuestros pies pueden abandonar, pero no nuestros corazones.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Marriage, Missing You

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “The Poet at the Breakfast Table”, p.33, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Truth, Light

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• Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Running, Ears

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• A veces, un momento de perspicacia vale la experiencia de toda una vida.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Business, Wisdom Experience

  1857-8 The Professor at the Breakfast Table, ch.10.

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• La juventud se marchita, el amor decae, las hojas de la amistad caen; la esperanza secreta de una madre los sobrevive a todos.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Mothers Day, Mom, Hope

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.129, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

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  Estúpidos, Tontos, Hombres

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1858). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.42

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• We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Fear, Men, Imagination

  "The Poet at the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., 1872.

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• El amor es la llave maestra que abre las puertas de la felicidad.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Amor, Inspiración, Vida

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “A Mortal Antipathy”, p.246, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.

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  Sweet, Magic, Cheerful

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 1”, p.146, Reprint Services Corporation

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• No os hagáis ilusiones de que la amistad os autoriza a decir cosas desagradables a vuestros íntimos. Al contrario, cuanto más se acerca uno a una persona, más necesarios se hacen el tacto y la cortesía.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Friendship, Relationship, Courtesy

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.51, Reprint Services Corporation

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• A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspiration, Men, Age

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.178

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• Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Writing, Science, Thinking

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1867). “The Professor at the Breakfast-table: With the Story of Iris”, p.192

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• Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Bullying, Two, Common Sense

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Over the Teacups”, p.148, Reprint Services Corporation

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