List of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Total Quotes 112
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
Truth Honesty Iconoclasm
Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. georgius secundus was then alive,-- snuffy old drone from the german hive.
Drones Alive Fifty
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Trying Library Should
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure he who ordained the sabbath loves the poor!
Love Children Suffering
America is the only place where man is full-grown!
Military Men America
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. but if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.
Science Men Common Sense
Don't you stay at home of evenings? don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
Retirement Home Feet
Cupid "the little greatest enemy."
Life Enemy Littles
Me wretched! let me curr to quercine shades! effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! o, might i vole to some umbrageous clump,-- depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!
Maids Shade Might
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Inspirational Life Success
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. but if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Character Blow Aggravation
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
Mean People Trying
  • Born: August 29, 1809
  • Died: October 7, 1894
  • Occupation: Physician
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