John Andrew Holmes Quotes
American physician and writer. Best known for Wisdom in Small Doses (1927).
(1874 - ??)
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A child enters your home and makes so much noise for twenty years that you can hardly stand it: then departs leaving the house so silent that you think you will go mad.
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A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness.
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At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.
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Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
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It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
[Human Relations]
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Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
[Speech]
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The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants.
[Christmas]
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The entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
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There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
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When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches.
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Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
[Peace]
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