Quotes by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he >>

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he >>

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. >>

Quotations about Secrets

What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away >>

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. >>

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is foll >>

Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell