"Writing or printing is like shooting with a……" — Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it - but talking is like playing at a mark with the pipe of an engine; if it is within reach, and you have time enough, you can't help hitting it"
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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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Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it…
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Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is…
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The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best…
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You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live…
— Charles Babbage
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Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity…
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We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a…
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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing.…
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Enthusiasm is the engine of success..
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What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I…
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on…
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