Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
truth
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
duty rule seem
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
education learning main
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
uttered
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
calamity disaster great
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
age-and-aging men playing
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
men revolutions-and-revolutionaries
Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
alike fatal homicide language legitimate life results treatment violent word
Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide --that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life --are alike forbidden.
banks customers keeps lending minutes miser wants whose
Old time, in whose banks we deposit our notes, Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears By lending them minutes and charging them years
expectation large neighbors reason suspect true
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.
chips contrived critics
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left.