Quote #19796
Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we...
Category Archives: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Quote #19812
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he...
Quote #19828
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of...
Quote #19797
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Quote #19813
To obtain a man’s opinion of you, make him mad.
Quote #19829
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Quote #19782
To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Quote #19798
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and...
Quote #19814
No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.
Quote #19830
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more...