178 Quotations by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- 141. The man who thinks his wife, his baby, his house, his horse, his dog, and himself severely unequalle ...
- 142. The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will co ...
- 143. The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end o ...
- 144. The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
- 145. The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
- 146. The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom wil ...
- 147. The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of h ...
- 148. The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- 149. The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.
- 150. The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
- 151. The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what w ...
- 152. The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low qualit ...
- 153. The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do w ...
- 154. The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
- 155. There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All ...
- 156. There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular m ...
- 157. There's nothing that keeps its youth,
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- 158. This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
- 159. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us t ...
- 160. To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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