Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
“Old Ironsides" Aye tear her tattered ensign down long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of an eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Copy Share Image
