Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Beauty, Past, Beautiful Women

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.31, Reprint Services Corporation

• Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Life, Art, Past

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.98, Reprint Services Corporation

• Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1911). “From Day to Day with Holmes”

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