Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
ahead divided humankind people sit
People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?
anxiety civilization degree marked people
The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by
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People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
mean people trying
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
simple people perception
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
happy-friday people disrespectful
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
change people fundamentals
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
death doors people
Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
two people world
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
people decision foundation
In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.
powerful thinking people
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!
aim
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think.
fools men wise
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it
conversation dreadful pathway stick
And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.