Quotes and Images From the Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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Quotes and Images From the Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Quotations
Listen to what others say about
subjects you have studied
Little great man
Little muscle which knows its
importance
Little narrow streaks of specialized
knowledge
Live on the reputation of the
reputation they might have made
Living in a narrow world of dry habits
Logic
Logicians carry the surveyor's chain
over the track
Long illness is the real vampyrism
Look through the silvered rings of the
arcus senilis!
Love must be either rich or rosy
Love is sparingly soluble in the words
of men
Love-capacity is a congenital endowment
Lying is unprofitable
Made up your mind to do when you ask
them for advice
Man of family
Man who means to be honest for a
literary pickpocket
Man is father to the boy that was
Man's and a woman's dusting a library
Man's first life-story shall clean him
out, so to speak
Mathematical fact
May doubt everything to-day if I will
only do it civilly
Meaningless blushing
Mechanical invention had exhausted
itself
Memory is a net
Men that know everything except how to
make a living
Men grow sweet a little while before
they begin to decay
Men of facts wait their turn in grim
silence
Men who have found new occupations when
growing old
Men that it weakens one to talk with an
hour
Men are fools, cowards, and liars all
at once
Might have hired an EARTHQUAKE for less
money!
Moralist and occasional sermonizer
Most of our common, working beliefs are
probabilities
Moved as if all her articulations were
elbow-joints
Much ashamed of some people for
retaining their reason
Must not read such a string of verses
too literally
Must sail sometimes with the wind and
sometimes against it
Must be weaned from his late suppers
now
Napoleon's test
Nature dresses and undresses them
Nature, who always has her pockets full
of seeds
Nearest approach to flying that man has
ever made
Neither make too much of flaws or
overstatements
Never forget where they have put their
money
No families take so little medicine as
those of doctors
No fresh truth ever gets into a book
No man knows his own voice
Nobody is so old he doesn't think he
can live a year
None of my business to inquire what
other persons think
Nutritious diet of active sympathetic
benevolence
Oblivion as residuary legatee
Oblivion's Uncatalogued Library
Odious trick of speech or manners must
be got rid of.
Oh, so patient she is, this
imperturbable Nature!
Old Age
Old age appear as a series of personal
insults and indignities
Old jokes are dynamometers of mental
tension
One very sad thing in old friendships
One whose patients are willing to die
in his hands
One doesn't like to be cruel,--and yet
one hates to lie
One that goes in a nurse may come out
an angel
One can generally tell these wholesale
thieves easily enough
Open patches where the sun gets in and
goes to sleep
Oracle
Original, though you have uttered it a
hundred times
Ought to produce insanity in every
well-regulated mind
Our brains are seventy-year clocks
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