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
Virtues of a sporting man
Vulgarism of language
Wait awhile!
Walls of that larger Inquisition which
we call Civilization
Want of ideas, want of words, want of
manners
We die out of houses, just as we die
out of our bodies
We always compare ourselves with our
contemporaries.
We are all theological students
We carry happiness into our condition
We don't read what we don't like
We never tell our secrets to people
that pump for them.
Wedded, faded away, threw themselves
away
Wedding-ring conveys a right to a key
to this side-door
Weeded their circle pretty well of
these unfortunates
What a satire, by the way, is that
machine
What are the great faults of
conversation?
Whether anything can be conscious of
its own flavor??
Whether gifted with the accident of
beauty or not
While she is silent, Nature is working
for her
Who is in advance of it or even with it
Wholesale professional dealers in
misfortune
Why authors and actors are ashamed of
being funny?
Why did I not ask? you will say
Will you take the long path with me?
Winning-post a slab of white or gray
stone
Wit knows that his place is at the tail
of a procession.
Wonder how my great trees are coming on
this summer.
World calls him hard names, probably
World has a million roosts for a man,
but only one nest.
Yes, I am a man, like another
Young man knows the rules, but the old
man knows the exceptions
Youth and age--something in the soul
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