Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Quotes
11 November 2014
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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11 November 2014
What I call a good patient is one who, having found a good physician, sticks to him till he dies.
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11 November 2014
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.
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11 November 2014
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.
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11 November 2014
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.
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11 November 2014
A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
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11 November 2014
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.
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11 November 2014
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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11 November 2014
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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11 November 2014
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
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