Famous Quotes / Oliver Wendell Holmes
178 Quotations by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- 101. People can be divided into two classes: Those who go ahead and do something and those who sit still ...
- 102. People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
- 103. People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try ...
- 104. People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try ...
- 105. People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themse ...
- 106. Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right -- it holds my golden time!
- 107. Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
- 108. Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
- 109. Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.
- 110. Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
- 111. Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
- 112. Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ...
- 113. Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.
- 114. Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
- 115. Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
- 116. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
- 117. Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
- 118. Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
- 119. Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
- 120. Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly ...