29th August: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr)

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr, US Poet and professor was born on this date in 1809. Here are 10 things he said:

1. Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
2. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
3. The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
4. Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
5. The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
6. To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
7. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
8. The Amen of nature is always a flower.
9. We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
10. Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.