"A pun does not commonly justify a blow……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"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 be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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166 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes has 166 quotes on this site.
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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it…
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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see…
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The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to…
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I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the…
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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings…
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The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of…
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Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart…
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The best servant does his work unseen.
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See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
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More Aggravated Quotes
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one of 31 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery
— Charles Nqakula
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Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from…
— Carl Cohen
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The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed…
— Ban Ki-moon
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It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you…
— Wallace Stegner
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Animals are just pure, uncomplicated entities of creation from God. They live like the Maasai do in Kenya-for each day…
— Sylvia Browne
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Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme…
— Plato
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Called on the people of New Hampshire . . . to confess before God their aggravated transgressions and to implore…
— Josiah Bartlett
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Our most conservative estimates show that by adopting shall-issue laws(concealed carry laws), states reduced murders by 8.5%, rapes by 5%,…
— John R. Lott Jr.
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A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead.…
— Sylvia Browne
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It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that…
— Albert Wynn
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The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and…
— Mother Teresa
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Just had lunch with the president who seems pensive, slightly deflated, realistic, aggravated and resolute. Didn't eat his pie.
— Katie Couric
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