Famous Quotes / Oliver Wendell Holmes
178 Quotations by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- 21. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- 22. As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action o ...
- 23. Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.
- 24. Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.
- 25. Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except forc ...
- 26. Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cock-sure of many things that were not so.
- 27. Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
- 28. Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like
- 29. Death tugs at my ear and says: "Live, I am coming."
- 30. Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
- 31. Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. ...
- 32. Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, wi ...
- 33. Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
- 34. Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never ...
- 35. Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
- 36. Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of ...
- 37. Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
- 38. Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride.
- 39. Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.
- 40. Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.