Oliver Wendell Holmes Short Quotes

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The hat is the ultimum moriens of "respectability".

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
And since, I never dare to write
As funny as I can.

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Thou say'st an undisputed thing
In such a solemn way.

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Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

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Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

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Thine eye was on the censer,
And not the hand that bore it.

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There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young.

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One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One Nation evermore!

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Man wants but little drink below,
But wants that little strong.

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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

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The Widow Rowens was now in the full bloom of ornamental sorrow.

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And silence, like a poultice, comes
To heal the blows of sound.

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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used, till they are seasoned.

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End of the wonderful one-hoss shay.
Logic is logic. That's all I say.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I have always considered my face a convenience rather than an ornament.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Some of the sharpest men in argument are notoriously unsound in judgment.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Old age is like an opium-dream. Nothing seems real except what is unreal.

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The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

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Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favor of a greater.

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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

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Nothing can be so perfect when we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

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O hearts that break and give no sign
Save whitening lip and fading tresses!

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Each woman virtually summons every man to show cause why he doth not love her.

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How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!

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The brightest blades grow dim with rust,
The fairest meadow white with snow.

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When lawyers take what they would give
And doctors give what they would take.

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Every language is a temple, in which the soul of those who speak it is enshrined.

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It is the peculiarity of the bore that he is the last person to find himself out.

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Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.

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