Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
education men political
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
consistent
Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.
heart color brain
Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace.
love inspirational life
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
wise men way
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
family mothers-day mom
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.
ancestry signals breeding
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
genius may courses
You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.
spring tree age
And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.
alive fifty drones
Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,-- Snuffy old drone from the German hive.
maids shade might
Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,-- Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!
honesty truth iconoclasm
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
bullying two common-sense
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
stupid silly men
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.