Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes - Famous Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Born: 1841-03-08
Died: 1935-03-06
Oliver Wendell Holmes Biography
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made?
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Man has will, but woman has her way.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right - it holds my golden time!
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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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