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Oliver Holmes Quotes

By Simran Khurana, About.com

Imagination: Oliver Holmes Quotes
A man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.

Insight: Oliver Holmes Quotes
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Hope: Oliver Holmes Quotes
Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Friendship: Oliver Holmes Quotes
Don'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

Life: Oliver Holmes Quotes
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Life: Oliver Holmes Quotes
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

Wisdom: Oliver Holmes Quotes
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Love: Oliver Holmes Quotes
Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.

Happiness: Oliver Holmes Quotes
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

Dreams: Oliver Holmes Quotes
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Action: Oliver Holmes Quotes
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

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