{"author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.","author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes+Sr.","total_quotes":25,"quotes":[{"text":"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.","tags":["insanity","logic","mind"],"id":3472,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes+Sr."},{"text":"Beware how you take away hope from another human being.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.","tags":["hope"],"id":4266,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes+Sr."},{"text":"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.","tags":["insanity","life","sanity"],"id":33304,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes+Sr."},{"text":"What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.","tags":["books","read"],"id":33622,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes+Sr."},{"text":"When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.","tags":["wisdom","women"],"id":65227,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes+Sr."},{"text":"Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.","tags":["library"],"id":68477,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes+Sr."},{"text":"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.","tags":["disagreeable","enemies","friendship"],"id":95311,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes+Sr."},{"text":"Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.","tags":["dreams","language","thoughts","words"],"id":170827,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes+Sr."},{"text":"The Last LeafI saw him once before,As he passed by the door,And againThe pavement stones resound,As he totters o'er the groundWith his cane.They say that in his prime,Ere the pruning-knife of TimeCut him down,Not a better man was foundBy the Crier on his roundThrough the town.But now he walks the streets,And looks at all he meetsSad and wan,And he shakes his feeble head,That it seems as if he said,'They are gone.'The mossy marbles restOn the lips that he has prestIn their bloom,And the names he loved to hearHave been carved for many a yearOn the tomb.My grandmamma has saidPoor old lady, she is deadLong agoThat he had a Roman nose,And his cheek was like a roseIn the snow;But now his nose is thin,And it rests upon his chinLike a staff,And a crook is in his back,And a melancholy crackIn his laugh.I know it is a sinFor me to sit and grinAt him here;But the old three-cornered hat,And the breeches, and all that,Are so queer!And if I should live to beThe last leaf upon the treeIn the spring,Let them smile, as I do now,At the old forsaken boughWhere I cling.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.","tags":["poem","the-last-leaf"],"id":236233,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes+Sr."},{"text":"Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.","author":"Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.","tags":["adversity","compassion","connectedness","help","oneness","trouble","troubles","unity"],"id":238062,"author_id":"Oliver+Wendell+Holmes+Sr."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}