Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

''To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.''

''What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.''

''The morning cup of coffee has an exhiliration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.''

''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.''

''People that 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.''

''A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.''

''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.''

''The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.''

''Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes' conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.''

''Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.''