Explore more quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Age, Old, Years

"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."

Nothing, Remarkable

"Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left."

Nature,

"Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer."

People, Will

"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."

Man, Men, Old

"Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children."

Truth, Children, Pretty, World

"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."

Imagination, Memories, Old, Sense

"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."

Money, Trust

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up."

Creativity, Ideas, Mind

"Love prefers twilight to daylight."

Love, Twilight

Exlpore more Happiness quotes

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

Dale Carnegie, American Writer

Happiness, Work, Thought, Heart

"It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Happiness, Eyes, Temper

"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Happiness, Being, Body, Mind

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Happiness,

"There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Happiness, Quality, Difference

"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

Happiness, Man, Philosophy

"If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Happiness, Love, People, Smile

"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing."

Dale Carnegie, American Writer

Happiness, People, Fun, Succeed

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Happiness, Beauty, God, Opportunity

"If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Happiness, Living, Sense, Wonder