Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
certainty generally human longing
The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
arm bent fools height hold men paradox size stand water wise
the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.
arm bent fools height hold men paradox size stand water wise
... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.
men play political
See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
inspirational life success
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
sex angel men
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
race white politics
The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.
retirement home feet
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
long use answers
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
nature royal instinct
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
children suffering may
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
cities chicago comfort
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
running past men
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
life ocean existence
Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.