Quotes and Images From the Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. — John Shaqi
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
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Overrate their own flesh and blood
Painted there by reflection from our
faces
Passion never laughs
People in the green stage of millionism
People that make puns are like wanton
boys
Person is really full of information,
and does not abuse it
Personal incidents that call up single
sharp pictures
Physical necessity to talk out what is
in the mind
Picket-guard at the extreme outpost
Plagiarism
Pluck survives stamina
Poem must be kept and used, like a
meerschaum, or a violin
Poetry, instead of making one other
heart happy
Poetry of words is quite as beautiful
as that of sentences
Poor creature that does not often
repeat himself
Poverty is evidence of limited capacity
Power of human beings is a very
strictly limited agency
Power of music
Pretensions of presumptuous ignorance
Pride, in the sense of contemning
others
Probabilities
Project a principle full in the face of
obvious fact!
Provincial conceit, which some of us
must plead guilty to.
Pseudo-science
Pseudological inanity
Public itself, which insists on being
poisoned
Pun is prima facie an insult
Put coppers on the railroad-tracks
Qu'est ce qu'il a fait? What has he
done?
Quackery and idolatry are all but
immortal
Question everything
Racing horses are essentially gambling
implements
Rapidity with which ideas grow old in
our memories
Rather meet three of the scowlers than
one of the smilers.
Rather longer than usual dressing that
morning
Regained my freedom with a sigh
Religious mental disturbances
Remarkably intelligent audience
Remarks like so many postage-stamps
Returning thanks after a dinner of many
courses
Ribbon which has strangled so many
false pretensions
Sad thing to be born a sneaking fellow
Saddle-leather is in some respects even
preferable
Saint may be a sinner that never got
down to "hard pan"
Saturation-point of each mind differs
from that of every other
Saying one thing about it and believing
another
Scientific certainty has no spring in
it
Scientific knowledge
Second story projecting
See if the ripe fruit were better or
worse
Self-assertion, such as free suffrage
introduces
Self-love is a cup without any bottom
Self-made men?
Self-unconsciousness of genius
Sense of SMELL
Sentenced to capital punishment for the
crime of living
"Sentimentality," which is sentiment
overdone
"Settler" in the form of a fact or a
revolver
Several false premises
Shake the same bough again
She who nips off the end of a brittle
courtesy
She always laughs and cries in the
right places
Shut out, not all light, but all the
light they do not want
Shy of asking questions of those who
know enough to destroy
SIN has many tools, but a lie is the
handle which fits them all
Single combats between dead authors and
living housemaids
Singular inability to weigh the value
of testimony
Six persons engaged in every dialogue
between two
Slow to accept marvellous stories and
many forms of superstition
Small potatoes always get to the
bottom.
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