Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
mean people trying
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
fall men atheism
The truth is that the whole system of beliefs which comes in with the story of the fall of man ... is gently falling out of enlightened human intelligence.
world trouble humans
Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.
lying medicine doctors
No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
crazy men mad
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.
science men common-sense
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
thinking fame individual
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.
character blow aggravation
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
business giving simplicity
For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.
women inspiration thinking
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
hurt men mad
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
military men america
America is the only place where man is full-grown!
age youth aging
Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
sweet magic cheerful
Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face.