John Andrew Holmes Quotes

John Andrew Holmes (8)

Birth:	6th January, 1904
Death:	22nd June, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Poet

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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.

  John Andrew Holmes

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Anarchy, Boy

• Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

  John Andrew Holmes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Speech

• 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.

  John Andrew Holmes

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Poetry, Reading

• Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

  John Andrew Holmes

• A ten-word epigram to be accurate needs a ten-page footnote, yet what it lacks in accuracy it makes up in nimbleness.

  John Andrew Holmes

  Tags in Epitaphs And Epigrams

• It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

  John Andrew Holmes

• 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.

  John Andrew Holmes

  Topics in Children

• Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both

  John Andrew Holmes