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Men Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate…
- See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
- A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
- Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
- The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of…
- A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
- The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
- 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…
- A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
- 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.
- 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…
- I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a…
- 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…
- To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
- Man has his will, but woman has her way.
- When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by…
- Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist…
- Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust…
- The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction…
- Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
- Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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