Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes

Rough Work, Iconoclasm, But The Only Way To Get At Truth.

Seventeen Hundred And Fifty-five. Georgius Secundus Was Then Alive,-- Snuffy Old Drone From The German Hive.

Every Library Should Try To Be Complete On Something, If It Were Only The History Of Pinheads.

Yes, Child Of Suffering, Thou May'st Well Be Sure He Who Ordained The Sabbath Loves The Poor!

America Is The Only Place Where Man Is Full-grown!

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.

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?

Cupid "the Little Greatest Enemy."

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!

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.

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.

People Who Honestly Mean To Be True Really Contradict Themselves Much More Rarely Than Those Who Try To Be 'consistent'.