Quotes 241 till 260 of 479.
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No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else.
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No one is wise or safe, but they that are honest.
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Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
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Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combination.
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Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories (2016) 206 -
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
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Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.
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O what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive.
Marmion -
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
His Last Bow (1917) -
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
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Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
The Sign of the Four (1890) ch. 6 -
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
Sir William Osler: Aphorisms (1961) p. 105
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