Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes

“The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Over the Teacups

topic:joy

“Every person's feelings have a front-door and a side-door by which they may be entered.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

topic:feelings

“It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table

topic:faithworth

“They also serve who only stand and wait.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Over the Teacups

topic:waiting