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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifetimes experience. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
A new untruth is better than an old truth. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Apology is only egotism wrong side out. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Beware how you take away hope from another human being. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Dont be consistent but be simple true. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Dont 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. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Dont 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. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Dont you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Every calling is great when greatly pursued. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
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