Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have – Cincinnati sounds worse. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read Quote
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read Quote
Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks? Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read Quote
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ‘consistent’. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read Quote
Simple people… are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read Quote
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. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read Quote
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read Quote
Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read Quote
