Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving--we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."	Change, Excellence, Lies
"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?'"	Miscellaneous
"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."	Miscellaneous
"Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like."	Miscellaneous
"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."	Age, Time
"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."	Friends, Learning
"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains it original dimension."	Creativity, Men
"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."	Ability, Effort
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."	Excellence
"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."	Life, Men, Time
"To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad."	Men
"No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries."	Lies
"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."	Art, Love
"Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow."	Age
"Man has his will - but woman has her way."	Men, Women
"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."	Age, Change, Hope
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."	Lies
"No stranger can get a great many notes of torture out of a human soul; it takes one that knows it well -- parent, child, brother, sister, intimate."	Anger, Excellence, Friends

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