Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
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.
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?