Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
fools men wise
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it
age-and-aging men playing
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
men revolutions-and-revolutionaries
Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
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There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors
america failure fully graves greatest human means men music natural resources though tragedy truly utilize women
The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.
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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.
sex angel men
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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.
hate science men
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
education men political
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
wise men way
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
stupid silly men
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.