178 Quotations by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- 1. A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

- 2. A day's impact is better than a month of dead pull.

- 3. A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sin ...

- 4. A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

- 5. A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

- 6. A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

- 7. A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting ...

- 8. A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.

- 9. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

- 10. A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command ...

- 11. A new untruth is better than an old truth.

- 12. A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

- 13. A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

- 14. A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ...

- 15. A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

- 16. A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary ...

- 17. Age, like distance lends a double charm.

- 18. All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "facts." They are the brute beasts of t ...

- 19. And Silence, like a poultice, comes to heal the blows of sound.

- 20. And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful ers.

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