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Sunday, August 14, 2011
John Andrew Holmes
Showing quotations 1 to 2 of 2 total It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. John Andrew HolmesSpeech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses"
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 20 of 20 total A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. Oliver Wendell Holmes Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. Oliver Wendell HolmesI find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendell HolmesIt is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. Oliver Wendell HolmesMan's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. Oliver Wendell HolmesScience is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below. Oliver Wendell HolmesSpeak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. Oliver Wendell HolmesTake a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. Oliver Wendell Holmes The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. Oliver Wendell HolmesTo be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. Oliver Wendell HolmesTruth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Oliver Wendell HolmesWhen I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman? Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872 A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858 Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858 Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858 There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 20 of 20 total A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. Oliver Wendell Holmes Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. Oliver Wendell HolmesI find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendell HolmesIt is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. Oliver Wendell HolmesMan's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. Oliver Wendell HolmesScience is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below. Oliver Wendell HolmesSpeak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. Oliver Wendell HolmesTake a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. Oliver Wendell Holmes The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. Oliver Wendell HolmesTo be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. Oliver Wendell HolmesTruth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Oliver Wendell HolmesWhen I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman? Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872 A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858 Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858 Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858 There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Biography
Type: Writer
Nationality: American
Born: August 29, 1809
Died: October 8, 1894
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't be "consistent" but be simple true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Biography
Type: Writer
Nationality: American
Born: August 29, 1809
Died: October 8, 1894
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Saturday, March 5, 2011
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 20 of 20 total A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. Oliver Wendell Holmes Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. Oliver Wendell HolmesI find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendell HolmesIt is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. Oliver Wendell HolmesMan's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. Oliver Wendell HolmesScience is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below. Oliver Wendell HolmesSpeak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. Oliver Wendell HolmesTake a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. Oliver Wendell Holmes The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. Oliver Wendell HolmesTo be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. Oliver Wendell HolmesTruth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Oliver Wendell HolmesWhen I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman? Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872 A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858 Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858 Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858 There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 20 of 20 total A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. Oliver Wendell Holmes Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. Oliver Wendell HolmesI find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendell HolmesIt is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. Oliver Wendell HolmesMan's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. Oliver Wendell HolmesScience is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below. Oliver Wendell HolmesSpeak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. Oliver Wendell HolmesTake a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. Oliver Wendell Holmes The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. Oliver Wendell HolmesTo be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. Oliver Wendell HolmesTruth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Oliver Wendell HolmesWhen I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman? Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872 A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858 Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858 Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858 There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth. Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
John Andrew Holmes
Showing quotations 1 to 2 of 2 total It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. John Andrew HolmesSpeech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses"
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