Quotes Oliver Wendell Holmes

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to...

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Societ...

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after i...

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a qu...

A new untruth is better than an old truth....

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old...

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a b...

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hu...

Apology is only egotism wrong side out....

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent k...

Beware how you take away hope from another human being....

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every f...

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we h...

Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools kno...

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist...

Don't be "consistent" but be simple true....

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say...

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don you love a cushioned...

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the m...

Every calling is great when greatly pursued....

Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to rea...

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it ...

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out...

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something...

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of...