A collection of quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr on mind, enemies, friends, poems, ideas, books, belief, faith, life, aging, sanity, reading and evolution.
56 Top Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Quotes
Famous As:
Physician & Poet
Born In:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American polymath, poet and writer. He is regarded as one of the finest writers of his era by his contemporaries. Holmes attended the Phillip Academy and then went on to study at the prestigious Harvard University, from where he earned his degree in 1829. Later, he decided to study law but changed his mind and instead acquired his MD from Harvard Medical School. Holmes had been a poet from an early age and some of his better known works include ‘Poems’, ‘Songs in Many Keys’, ‘The Chambered Nautilus’, ‘The Deacon’s Masterpiece’ and ‘Old Ironsides’ among others. He had also written prose and some of the more important among them include ‘Over the Teacups’, ‘The Professor at the Breakfast Table’, ‘The Poet at the Breakfast Table’ and the path breaking ‘The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table’. Some of his noted novels include ‘A Moral Antipathy’, ‘Elsie Venner’ and ‘The Guardian Angel’. Holmes was also a teacher at the Dartmouth Medical School and later taught at Harvard Medical School as well. Holmes was without doubt one of the most brilliant men of his era. We bring to you a treasure trove of quotes that have been excerpted from Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr’s novels, books and writings. Read on to explore a compilation of some of the best known quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, covering various aspects of life.