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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