Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
When fades at length our lingering day,
Who cares what pompous tombstones say?
Read on the hearts that love us still,
Hic jacet Joe. Hic jacet Bill.
Who cares what pompous tombstones say?
Read on the hearts that love us still,
Hic jacet Joe. Hic jacet Bill.
Hic jacet means here lies.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Each woman virtually summons every man to show cause why he doth not love her.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
And when you stick on conversation's burrs,
Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.