Best Oliver Wendell Holmes Sayings
- A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. Addiction
- Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true. Consistent
- The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. Been
- I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his… Action
- Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. Abstract
- A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. Begin
- A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day. Angel
- Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? Corner
- Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. Blood
- Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have… Brook
- Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. Best Friend
- The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. Always Worrying
- A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. Chart
- Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. Chicago
- Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as… Caught
- Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. Complete
- I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a… Adding
- Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. Common
- Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. Honesty
- Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. Facts
- The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think. Aim
- Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the… All
- A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would… Aggravated
- Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us… Celebrated
- 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 hasn't… Accounts
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