A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read Quote
Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read Quote
Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read Quote
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else – very rarely to those who say to themselves, ‘Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!’. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read Quote
The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read Quote
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read Quote
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read Quote
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left! Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read Quote
Don’t you stay at home of evenings? Don’t you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Read Quote
