"I would not give a fig for the……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity."
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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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Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when…
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There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he…
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Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies…
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Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting…
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I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict…
— Emily Blunt
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification…
— Edward de Bono
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When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your…
— Nolan Bushnell
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.
— Lionel Trilling
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Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of…
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