Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes

American writer and poet

Lived from: 1809 - 1894

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 29 august 1809 Died: 7 october 1894

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  • Man has his will, but woman has her way.
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  • Man has will, but woman has her way.
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  • Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
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  • Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
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  • Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
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  • Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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  • Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.
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  • Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
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  • No gentleman can be a philosopher an no philosopher a gentleman: to the philosopher everything is fluid - even himself.
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  • Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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  • Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.
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  • Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.
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  • On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
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  • One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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  • Our brains our seventy year clocks, the angel of life winds them up once and for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of resurrection.
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  • People are born fools and damned for not being wiser.
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  • People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?
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  • People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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  • People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''
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  • People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
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