About Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was an American physician, poet, professor, lecturer, and author based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, his peers acclaimed him as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table" series, which began with The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). He was also an important medical reformer.
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.