A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

A general flavor of mild decay but nothing local as one may say.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

A 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

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

A man must get a thing before he can forget it.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbors: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

A mind stretched by a new idea never shrinks back to its original proportions. ~

— Oliver Wendell Holmes