Quote #4032
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. +4-2
Category Archives: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Quote #4048
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. 00
Quote #4001
To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man....
Quote #4017
Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we...
Quote #4033
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he...
Quote #4049
When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking...
Quote #4002
Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by...
Quote #4018
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. +10
Quote #4034
To obtain a man’s opinion of you, make him mad. +1-1
Quote #4050
Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates....