The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Quotes

“But this is only the sentimental side of the matter; for grow we must, if we outgrow all that we love.”

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

topic:love

“Poetry uses the rainbow tints for special effects, but always keeps its essential object in the purest white light of truth.”

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

topic:truthlightpoetry

“In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.”

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

topic:truthyouth

“Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used, till they are seasoned.”

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

topic:knowledge

“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.”

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

topic:realitythought

“A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.”

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

topic:stupiditymadnessweakness

“The Amen! of Nature is always a flower.”

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

topic:nature

“Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.”

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

topic:memoryforgetting

“A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.”

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

topic:age

“Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.”

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

topic:age